Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: 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 ahụ na-amalite mgbe ihe ndị a gasịrị
Onyeisi ala Ronald Reagan na Jenụwarị 1981 ma mechie na Disemba 1987, obere oge tupu ndị isi nke United States na Soviet Union abịanye aka na Nkwekọrịta Nuclear Forces Intermediate-Range.