At the beginning of the 1980s, Vladimir Vetrov, code name Farewell, a KGB agent, delivers thousands of strategic documents on Soviet economy and its military industry, as well as the names of the main Soviet agents operating in the West. By revealing this information he contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the USSR, and he created a cataclysm that led President Reagan to call him "the spy of the century".
In May of 1927, a young aviator made the first non-stop, solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris aboard his Spirit of St. Louis. Overnight, Charles A. Lindbergh became the world's best-known aviator and an American hero for generations to come. The film also retraces the sometimes tragic and dishonorable highlights of this courageous man's life: the kidnapping and murder of his first child, his fascination with Hitler and his secret life with three women.