Amidst the peak of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, a key confidant and advisor to Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, as well as a covert operative for the KGB, finds himself needing to flee Romania and Ceaușescu before his true identity is exposed. With assistance from a clandestine Stasi operative and a rising CIA agent, Godeanu must outmaneuver both the KGB and his nation’s intelligence forces, all the while knowing that his defection places his family in grave peril back home.