In 1927, a Russian emigre, Klim Rogov, comes to the USSR looking for his wife Nina who was abducted by Soviet agents. His tourist visa expires, so he gets a position in the United Press as a correspondent in Moscow. Covering the political events in the first and only socialist state in the world, Klim realizes that the Soviet Russia slowly but inevitably slides down to totalitarianism. Another, indistinguishable revolution is unfolding in front of his eyes, but this time Stalin's attack on his own people has much worse consequences than the October coup d'etat in 1917. Klim thinks that Nina went to prison for political offenses, but he finds her among the so-called Red Capitalists, a few lucky foreigners able to do business in Russia. There's no need to save her - at least that is what Klim thinks. Nothing could be further from the truth."