During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to escape, but can he trust the American?