The threats people hold over us are most often imagined. We even create them for ourselves.
Ted moves to London to get away from his working-class home. He wants to become a journalist, but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when he is given the opportunity to go to Romania to interview an art film director then attend Moscow film festival.
But someone has other plans for him. Has he walked into a trap?

It’s 1973 and Martha has been sent down from Cambridge for distributing left-wing leaflets and doing no work. To escape parental disapproval, she marries her friend Kit, posted to Moscow by the diplomatic service. Kit is gay, so having a wife could keep him safe. In Moscow, Martha struggles to make sense of a difficult but fascinating new world. Who can she trust? Who can she even talk to? She takes Russian lessons, makes the wrong friends, becomes familiar with a strange and wonderful city, and unwittingly becomes a spy.