Berlin, 1989. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears -- presumed dead -- and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door. Nothing about her marriage is as it seems. Anne had been targeted by the Matchmaker -- a high level East German counterintelligence officer -- who runs a network of Stasi agents. These agents are his 'Romeos' who marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to provide them with cover, whilst they commit espionage. The CIA are desperate to find the Matchmaker. They need Anne because she's the only person who has seen the Matchmaker's face -- from a photograph mistakenly left out in her husbands office -- and she is the CIA's best chance to identify him before he escapes to Moscow.
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