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España, 1937. Un joven oficial republicano llamado Ramón Mercader es reclutado por el servicio de espionaje soviético para participar en una misión de alto secreto ordenada por el propio Stalin: asesinar a León Trotsky, a quien considera untraidor.Tras un tiempo de preparación en Rusia, Ramón deja la que hasta entonces era su vida y viaja a París bajo una nueva identidad, la de un belga adinerado llamado Jacques Mornard. Allí conoce a Sylvia, una joven trotskista, quien no tardará en serseducidapor Jacques.En 1940 se reencuentran en México, país en el que Trotsky vive exiliado. Ramón dice refugiarse de la Guerra que asola Europa y Sylvia trabaja como secretaria de Trotsky. Ajena a los verdaderos planes de su amado, Sylvia le abre las puertas de suvida yle introduce en el círculo íntimo de su objetivo.

It´s 1937 and Ramon Mercader is a young officer fighting against Franco´s troops in the Spanish Civil War. His mother, Caridad del Rio, is an undercover agent working for the GPU (Soviet Secret Service) who recruits him to be one of theparticipants inan important undercover mission to assassinate Trotsky, an order that comes directly from Stalin. Ramon is sent to Moscow for training and later assumes the false identity of Jacques Mornard, supposedly the son of a wealthy Belgian diplomat. It isunderthis guise that he travels to Paris, where he meets the young Trotskyist Sylvia Ageloff. The two soon become lovers. They meet again in early 1940s Mexico, where Trotsky and his family have been exiled and where Sylvia is now working as one of hissecretaries. Ramon claims to have fled Europe to avoid the war and the couple soon gets engaged. Sylvia starts preparing her wedding, ignorant of the fact that her position inside Trotsky´s household is being used to obtain information in order tocarryout Stalin´s plan. When the first attack planned by the GPU is finally carried out, it fails miserably and they are forced to implement a new plan with a new person to execute it. Ramon is singled out as “the chosen one”, handpicked to carry outStalin´s orders: the assassination of Trotsky.