In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940 21-year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum Enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey trap or face the death of her family Despairingly she agrees Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target John Murray a British Embassy cypher in Moscow As two disparate lives intertwine their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen Arctic wastelands clutching forged papers & hopes not just for survival but for a future together