Summary
Fleeing the autocratic shadows of her native Russia, a determined young woman navigates the treacherous currents of early 20th-century New York. Adopting a meticulously crafted charade, she insinuates herself into the opulent world of American industrialist John Colton, posing as the offspring of a Polish acquaintance. Her objective: to exploit the family's privileged access to market intelligence, funneling crucial stock tips to a clandestine network of fellow expatriate revolutionaries. This high-stakes game of economic espionage, intended to fund the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, rapidly spirals into unforeseen complexities, challenging her convictions and threatening to dismantle the fragile edifice of her deception. The film thus explores the moral ambiguities of ends justifying means, the personal cost of political zeal, and the unpredictable nature of fate when idealism collides with reality.
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A young Russian woman escapes persecution in her country and makes her way to the United States. Shortly after her arrival she meets an American millionaire, John Colton. She pretends to be the daughter of a friend of Mr. Colton's in Poland, and he and his wife take her in. She takes advantage of her position with the Colton family to get inside tips on the stock market, which she then relays to a group of her fellow political refugees in New York City, so they can make money to use to bring about revolution in Russia. However, things don't go quite as she planned.
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