![The Russia House](https://image.chilimovie.com/region2/en/300px/20231229/bBqS10XXFOFwzB9XZv3LmKrmmSl.jpg)
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.