A counterpart to our own Trials of Alger Hiss, this is a portrait of Cold War hysteria, East European-style, and a documentary that is as captivating as an espionage thriller. At its center is the shadowy figure of Noel Field, American expatriate. A former State Department insider with links to the OSS, Field was nevertheless a pacifist and a Communist who remained in Eastern Europe after the war. In 1949, Field was arrested as an imperialist spy and his every acquaintance rounded up. Like Hiss in America, his arrest ushered in the Cold War in Eastern Europe, its distressed rhetoric, show trials, anti-Semitism, and executions paralleling affairs in the U.S. But Field remained an enigma: interviews with survivors only add to the mystery of this man in whose sphere many people met their deaths.