On the New York Stock Exchange the shares of a major American company are up. An American broker Nick MacGoire decides to bet on the company by buying shares for tens of millions of dollars. But the next day the company goes bankrupt.
In Siberia a group of prisoners flee, but only one survives Alekseï Bolotov. His sister, Katia, a modest English teacher, receives a notice from the militia informing her of her brother's flight.
So broker Nick MacGoire arrives in Russia to find out what happened with the bankrupt company. He meets Katia and her brother ...