The Secrets We Kept

It’s the dawn of the Cold War, and words have been weaponized.
In Moscow, Olga Ivinskaya is arrested. She is the muse of Boris Pasternak, the Soviet Union’s most famous living writer. The State is aware that Pasternak is working on a novel, titled Doctor Zhivago, that criticizes the October Revolution, and seeking to acquire intel and pressure the author, sends his lover to the Gulag.
Meanwhile, in Washington, the newly formed CIA has begun smuggling books banned by the USSR back into the Motherland; to show Soviet citizens how their government is keeping great literature from them, and how true freedom can only thrive within a democracy.
After three years in the labor camps, Olga is reunited with Boris. He finishes the novel, only to see it banned by the State. As the couple battles increasing persecution by their government, the CIA establishes a mission to acquire the manuscript, covertly print it, and smuggle it back behind the Iron Curtain.
The Agency enlists former OSS agent Sally Forrester to vet and mentor a new member of their typing pool, Irina Drozdova, in the art of carrying and delivering intelligence, so that she may slip Doctor Zhivago to Soviet citizens during an upcoming World’s Fair.
The story unfolds around the Soviet State’s persecution of Boris and Olga, the growing relationship between Sally and Irina, and the CIA’s clandestine Zhivago mission. And it follows Pasternak’s masterpiece as it travels around the world. This is an intricate and timely story of political and social persecution and the war of words between the US and the USSR.
It explores themes of sexism, sexuality, secrecy, and how people change over time.