In an isolated village in the mountains of andalusia, a mysterious frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the beirut of old and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the kgb inserted a mole into the heart of the west– a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power.