White Nights plot
A plane bound for Japan has to make an emergency landing in Siberia due to technical problems. On board is Nicolaï Rodchenko, a Russian ballet dancer who has fled to the United States. Rodchenko destroys his identity papers, but he is injured in the head and is taken to a hospital. There he is recognized by Chaiko, a colonel of the KGB. He plans to perform him in a play as a repentant Rodchenko and therefore entrusts him to Raymond Greenwood, a black American who fled the racism of Harlem with his wife and went to live in the Soviet Union.