by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
In this complex spy caper, Nicole (Genevieve Bujold) is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former U.S.S.R. She is there to cover a visit by the Canadian prime minister, but along the way she discovers an unethical experimentation on children involving the use of steroids. She is also involved in smuggling out a girl for emergency brain surgery and develops a romantic liaison with Lyosha (Michael York), a bureaucrat in the Soviet press corps. A Jewish businessman she knows just happens to be in Russia, and she asks him to help her in the smuggling attempt.
characteristics
- Political Corruption
- Heroic Mission
- Daring Rescues
- Experiment
- Journalism
- Journalist
- Narcotics
- Smuggling
- Smuggler
- Intrigue
- KGB
- Girl
- Captor
- Captivity
- Cold-War
