This captivating family story captures an important piece of world history and tells of idealism and delusion, the longing for a homeland, the secrets that everyone keeps to themselves, and the power of love and friendship. Young Florence Fein decides in the 1930s to turn her back on the Great Depression in America and go to Moscow. Like many Americans, she hopes to find not only independence and freedom there but also to help build a better world. The political spirit of the time excites the girl from Brooklyn; she feels she is doing meaningful work and falls in love. However, she soon has to learn what it means to live in a totalitarian state. Decades later, her son Julian discovers the truth about his mother in recently declassified KGB files; by then, he is already living in the USA.