After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

• Columbia Pictures
• New Visions
• Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Gregory Hines
• Jerzy Skolimowski
• Helen Mirren
• Geraldine Page
• Isabella Rossellini
• John Glover
• Stefan Gryff