The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway theatre, television and Hollywood films. Her husband, Edgar Snow, is world famous.  A pioneer fascinated by China, he is the first journalist to film and interview Mao Tse-tung.  Suspected by the American authorities of Communist sympathies, Ed and Lois are blacklisted.  Together with their two small children, they go to Switzerland, mid-way between China and America, where they find a new home. A story of revolution, utopia, disillusionment, and hope.