Just one mistake can change a young girl's life forever.
This story is a lesson in life for Vika Zotova, as she grows up in the Soviet Union prior to Glasnost. For an innocent, fourteen-year-old girl, that truth becomes all too real when she meets Sergei Nilovski, a KGB officer who becomes the first love of her life. Before their relationship can full mature, terror strikes. She is laughing and joking one minute, only to wake up days after, as slave in a foreign land. And, her young mind is continuously thinking about ways to escape.