Holed up in a safehouse, Victor nervously waits for Frank as news of a missing diplomat spreads. Meanwhile, Frank tries to force the CIA's hand - but his strategy could backfire.
During the height of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and secret agent for the KGB, must escape Romania and Ceausescu before his cover is blown. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and an up-and-coming CIA agent, Godeanu must elude the KGB and his own country's spooks, fully aware that his defection is putting his family back home in mortal danger.