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A California wild child and a mad Englishman meet in Cold War Moscow during tumultuous times. The world was changing. So were the lives of two teachers at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. He’s fun-loving and philosophical. She’s free-spirited and unbound by rules. They tell their story in two very different voices. It is a complicated love story, during precarious years, back in the USSR. 

Vetted by the Foreign Colonial Office in London, Jim’s politics were questioned, but he assured the interrogator that he was not a communist. When he arrived, he had a lot to learn. How to drive a car, skate, shop, and teach Kindergarten.

Briefed by the American Embassy on Soviet rules and regulations, Joann thought the rules didn’t apply to her. From her illegal photos of tanks and missiles to traveling in areas “closed to foreigners”, Joann skated on thin ice.

Hostilities between East and West in the 1970s and early 1980s escalated. Foreigners were bugged, followed, and suspected of spying. The Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the US and UK boycotted the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics nixing Jim and Joann’s summer jobs with NBC. 

Expect the unexpected on a round-the-world journey, when at an eastern seaport closed to foreigners, the Soviets frog-march and detain Joann. Jim refuses to board the Far East Steamship to Japan. Will Joann finally get her comeuppance?