Jessica Svetlana Gilkova discovers that pseudonyms are passports
to the world, poetry becomes the song of dissidents, and fashion
is the language of freedom when the true self is denied. Drawn
into the underworld of the Society of Poets by poet Alexsei, she
becomes suspicious of his carefree life. She finds mysterious missions
of dissidents caught in Cold War Russia threaten her haute
couture boutique in Leningrad, that repression forces people and
relationships to hide behind personas and facades.
Meanwhile Viktor champions Jessica, a woman entrepreneur,
while one of his stated desires is to obtain a fiery opal pendant
formerly owned by the nobility. Overcoming denial and intrigue,
she discovers he is a man with a mission
