Farewell

Moscou, au début des années 80, en pleine Guerre Froide. Sergueï Grigoriev, colonel du KGB déçu du régime de son pays, décide de faire tomber le système. Il prend contact avec un jeune ingénieur français en poste à Moscou, Pierre Froment. Les informations extrêmement confidentielles qu'il lui remet ne tardent pas à intéresser les services secrets occidentaux. Mitterrand lui-même est alerté et décide d'informer le président Reagan : un gigantesque réseau d'espionnage permet aux Soviétiques de tout connaître des recherches scientifiques, industrielles et militaires à l'Ouest ! Les deux hommes d'État décident d'exploiter ces données ultra sensibles transmises par une mystérieuse source moscovite que les Français ont baptisée « Farewell ». Homme sans histoire, Pierre Froment se retrouve alors précipité au cour de l'une des affaires d'espionnage les plus stupéfiantes du XXème siècle. Une affaire qui le dépasse et qui menace bientôt sa vie et celle de sa famille.

Grigoriev, um antigo funcionário da KGB, desiludido com o rumo que o comunismo tomou no seu país, começa a transmitir informações altamente secretas sobre a rede de espionagem russa nos Estados Unidos a um empresário francês sediado em Moscovo.

In the early 1980s, a high-ranking KGB analyst, Sergei Grigoriev, disillusioned with the Soviet Union regime, decides to pass Soviet secrets, including a list of Soviet spies, to the government of France, then under the newly elected President François Mitterrand, a Socialist Party (France) in coalition with the French Communist Party. Grigoriev (code-named ''Farewell'' by the Direction de la surveillance du territoire) hopes to force change in the Soviet Union by revealing their extensive network of spies trying to acquire scientific, technical and industrial information from the West. He uses Pierre Froment, a naïve French engineer based in Moscow, as his unlikely intermediary. After the first transfer of information, Pierre confides in his wife Jessica, who is adamant about his stopping to preserve their family. Grigoriev persuades Pierre to continue without telling Jessica. He will accept neither money nor defection as a reward, but sometimes requests small gifts from Pierre's trips to France, such as a Sony Walkman and Queen (band) cassette tapes for his son, some Cognac (brandy), or books of French poetry. As Farewell's prodigious output blossoms, the French are bewildered by the sheer scale and yield of top Western technology transferred covertly to the Soviets.

Grigoriev, um ex-funcionário da KGB desiludido com o caminho que o comunismo tomou em seu país, começa a enviar informações altamente secretas sobre a rede de espionagem russa nos EUA a um empresário francês baseado em Moscou.