Rohmer enters murky political territory in his moral spy yarn based on a true crime. In 1936, Tsarist sympathizer Fiodor Voronin (Renko) is living in exile in Paris with his Greek-born wife Arsinoe (Didaskalou). His frequent business trips arouse Arsinoe's suspicions, but Fiodor is not having an affair: he's a spy playing the White Russians against the communists and the fascists in a dangerous and increasingly complicated triple-cross. French, Russian, and German with subtitles.