Looking for kicks, our hero, the dashing young cavalry officer Alexander Petrovsky, moves into an affair with the insatiable, big-breasted wife of the Deputy Director of Security, and on to a dangerous flirtation with counter-revolutionary politics. In attempting to give England back to the English, he’s unwittingly joined a game of Russian hide-and-seek. It’s just like Russian roulette, except you play it in the dark and you shoot to kill – other people.