 Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) is an American news writer stationed in Moscow since the war; while there he falls for a Russian ballet dancer, Marva Lamarkins (Gene Tierney), who, he finds out, learned English because she fell in love with him. They marry, only to find that the Soviet nation which gladly collaborated with the Allies against Hitler has become a paranoid police state in peacetime. Sutherland is forced to leave without Marva, but he s determined to get her back, whether it be through proper channels, or through dangerously improper ones.