Anna Levitskaya is loyal to the party and so need not fear being taken away in a Black Mariah. Only dissidents and rebels are sent to the Gulags, not upright citizens like Anna. She keeps her head down and works hard at the factory, always careful what she says, if she says anything at all. Despite Anna's meticulous caution, everything goes wrong when her drunk fianc tells a joke mocking the Supreme Leader, and the NKVD officers hear of it. Before...