Two Prosecutors begins with the gate of a prison opening and ends with another closing. This circular trajectory delimits the hero's adventure, Kornev, a young prosecutor in Stalin's Russia, who, upon discovering the torture and forced confessions to which the survivors of the old guard of the Communist Party in his region are subjected, wants to bring this scandal to the attention of the Soviet leadership. The problem, however, is that his idealistic view (that of someone who "is still a virgin," as some characters who see themselves in his path slyly insinuate) is the only one that doesn't realize the corrupt world he moves in.

It's no secret that the geopolitical status quo we've been living with for the past few generations is the one forged 80 years ago at the Yalta Conference, when the three major powers on the verge of victory in World War II met to lay the foundations for what the world would be like in the following decades. Present were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, representing the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, respectively. But the American delegation also included a much lesser-known man, albeit one accustomed to moving within the machinery of diplomacy: businessman and politician Averell Harriman.