Writer-director duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein play the spy game in a fast-paced action comedy set at the height of the Cold War. US Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy 'Assassin' Kelly (Ryan Reynolds) undertakes a top-secret mission that will see him fly over Soviet territory. The assignment is fatally compromised and Troy is stranded behind enemy lines, fearing the worst. Former KGB agent Nikolai Ustinov (Kenneth Branagh) discovers Troy and should hand him over to authorities. Instead, the Soviet with a passion for American culture forges an unlikely alliance with Troy to help the stricken American escape via the nearest US embassy.