Les Interdits plot
Odessa, Soviet Union, 1979. Carole and Jérôme, a young French couple, arrive at their holiday destination to celebrate their engagement. At least that's their story. In fact, they are first cousins and Jewish. They try to contact the local Jews, the so-called refuseniks, in an attempt to flee the country to be free from further persecution. During the day they pretend to be tourists but at night they are activists. When they carefully examine their hotel room for listening devices, they find a different kind of reality: drugs, sex and people who have spent time in the gulag. It doesn't take long before they meet a man with a particularly strong story.