Richard Sorge had a German father, a Russian mother, and a Nazi Party card, and he used all three to become one of the twentieth century's most effective spies. Posing as a loyal correspondent inside Japan, an ally of Hitler's Germany, Sorge fed Stalin's Moscow a stream of intelligence gathered through charm, drinking, and a network of contacts he cultivated inside the German embassy in Tokyo. The film traces his path from committed Communist conviction to double life, culminating in his warnings about German invasion plans and Japanese intentions toward the Soviet Union, information historians credit with shaping Soviet strategy at critical moments of the war. A 1951 journalist's line, that he betrayed his fatherland in favor of his motherland, runs through the narrative as a kind of verdict on the man. Drawing on archival photographs, wartime footage, and historians' analysis, the documentary makes the case that Sorge, often cited as an inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, lived a riskier and stranger version of that story than fiction ever managed.