Uma história sobre um homem excessivamente influenciada pelas mulheres na sua vida, que é única em muitos aspetos, incluindo o facto de que ele de alguma forma acabou por ser "hetero", apesar de suas provações com as mulheres, que começaram no nascimento.
Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity, political freedom, even luxury - make it a risk worth taking.
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
