Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Ndị America bụ usoro ihe nkiri telivishọn nke oge nledo nke America nke Joe Weisberg mepụtara maka netwọkụ telivishọn FX. Edere ya n'oge Agha Nzuzo, ọ na-eso akụkọ banyere Elizabeth (Keri Russell) na Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), ndị ọrụ nzuzo KGB abụọ nke Soviet na-eme ka di na nwunye America bi na Falls Church, Virginia nke dị na Washington, DC, na ụmụ ha, Paige (Holly Taylor) na Henry (Keidrich Sellati). Ihe ngosi ahụ na-enyocha esemokwu dị n'etiti ụlọ ọrụ FBI nke Washington na KGB "Rezidentura" site n'ịgbaso echiche nke ndị ọrụ n'akụkụ abụọ, gụnyere onye agbata obi Jennings bụ Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), onye ọrụ FBI na-arụ ọrụ na counterintelligence. Usoro ihe omume ahụ malitere mgbe e mere ememe ahụ.
nke President Ronald Reagan na January 1981 na-agwụ na December 1987, obere oge tupu ndị ndú nke United States na Soviet Union bịanyere aka n'akwụkwọ nkwekọrịta nke Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces.