The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.

Andrei Miller
Captain Malakhov
Anna
Beria
Nikola
Faina
Levenson
Faina's husband
Lilka (as Ira Mikhalyova)
Sergeant Konyaev
Charlie
Volodja