In April 1964 a girl falls to her death on the London underground. Is this a tragic accident or an act of murder? Could the girl have stumbled into dark secrets at the heart of the Cold War or is it a personal vendetta? This is how "The Reluctant Spy" begins. Rachel Moody is an ambitious young woman who wants more from life than the narrow prospect of domesticity and marriage. She pursues an unwise friendship with a Russian diplomat and provokes a Member of Parliament to take cruel action against her with long-reaching consequences for all of them. This is a dangerous time in the political field, a furtive time when there are no heroes and only a hidden enemy who could be masquerading as a friend. This Cold War drama inspired by true facts portrays the lives of whose caught up in circumstances beyond their control in a tangle of distrust and lies.