A teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life.

In 1944, 14-year-old Thomas is convoked to fight in the German Army. He survives, but his hometown is destroyed, his family dies in a bombing, and his sweetheart Melanie is raped and murdered by the Red Army. A commissar brings the orphaned Thomas to the Soviet Union, and he is sent to a military school. Years later, Thomas becomes an agent of the KGB and in 1962, during the Cold War, he is assigned to work in London. Living with ghosts from the past in constant fear and paranoia, he meets the Londoner Yvonne, who gives him strength and joy.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil