Aasta on 1981 ning USA ja Nõukogude Liidu vaheline Külm sõda käib täies hoos. Phillip ja Elizabeth, kodumaalt emigreerunud spioonid, peavad üheaegselt hakkama saama nii oma kohustustega abielu- ja perevallas kui ka ohtlike ülesannetega KGB alluvuses töötades.
Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian spies deactivated decades ago. But today the Kremlin has re-enlisted them into service as they plan a terrorist operation inside the U.S. border that will bring America to its knees.
Max Anger is a former member of the Swedish military who finally found love with his Russian colleague Pashie. When Pashie suddenly goes missing in St Petersburg, Max sets off on a mission to find her but soon finds himself on a deadly hunt leading him to a terrifying discovery that could potentially change the entire world order.
Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy. While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance blossoms between them but neither can be sure what is an expression of their true feelings, and what is the fruit of political shenanigans…