 Moscow based newspaper reporter Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) is in love with Marya (Gene Tierney), a ballerina.He and radio broadcaster Steve Quillan (Kenneth More) go to see her perform "Swan Lake" with the Bolshoi Ballet, and a pleased Philip learns that Marya wishes to marry him and accompany him home to San Francisco.They are married in the U.S. embassy, where they are warned that obtaining an exit visa is often quite difficult.