 A true story based on the book "The Ukraine in Chains" by Richard Thorsen. At the outbreak of WW2 Richard Thorsen, a defiant young Dane feigns allegiance to the enemy and journeys to the Ukraine to work for British Intelligence. Here he makes contact with Maria his Russian counterpart but the burden of secrecy they share is endangered by the emotional feelings growing between them. Both are painfully aware that to reveal their true emotions would prove fatal and neither has reckoned on the actions of Todt, the suspicious and manipulative German officer who has set out to ensnare them. Thorsen and Maria s fate hangs dangerously in the balance as Todt exerts his will to bring them both down.