However, with Russian forces tightly surveilling embassy activities, they need someone nobody would suspect to assist. Enter Wynne, a self-employed salesman, specialising in the international trade of British manufacturers’ goods. Eastern Europe has become more and more lucrative to him, he admits when first meeting government “trade officials”, but Russia? He’d like to “see the temperatures cool off first”. That’s when the lightest of pressures is applied, via a plea that “you’d be doing a real service to Great Britain – and the world”. Worried at what his wife Sheila (Jessie Buckley) might think about his extra time away, especially when he can’t tell her the real purpose for his increasingly frequent Russian excursions, it takes him a while to broach the subject. To his surprise though, she appears to take it rather well. “Do stay out of the gulag,” she teases.
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