Katya and Sasha love each other, but everyone has a business of his life. He is a doctor, she is a modern artist. Katya begins to move away from Sasha and be ashamed of his ignorance. He feels out of place among the artistic environment of his wife, but he cannot leave.
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.