It's 1991 and the Cold War just got colder Russian scientist Michael Stavitz has been ordered to return home by his government. He knows if he goes it will mean the end of his research collaborations with free world colleagues. An appeal to an American university gives him a job reprieving him from isolation in the Soviet Union. When he meets Shyra Devlin at the university, it's love at first sight for Michael and Shyra feels the attraction, too...