women communists

Nikolai Hoffner, a veteran detective with the Berlin police in the waning days of World War I, struggles to learn the truth when his investigation of the murders of four women is complicated by the discovery of the body of Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, whose corpse bears similar markings as those found on the earlier victims.

Chronicles the life of Soviet spy turned FBI informant Elizabeth Bentley, discussing how her actions started the greatest Red Scare in United States history.

Tells the life story of Elizabeth Bentley, the New England schoolteacher who fell in love with a KGB agent, became a spy for the Russians, and later switched allegiances again, naming several employees of the U.S. government as coconspirators.