It’s 1999 and Cindy Murphy is your regular New Jersey mom. Except she’s not. She’s a deep cover spy trained up by Moscow Center to infiltrate the US government.

Working mom Cindy embeds herself in Manhattan life. As she makes friends she works out how they can support her mission.

Cindy has a second child and becomes a stay-at-home mom, but she’s still a spy. And the FBI are homing in on her.

After an argument with her husband, Cindy takes over the role of main spy. Little does she know that when the family go on vacation, the FBI will search their apartment.

Cindy is living the American Dream. She’s moved the family to a perfect, suburban home. But Rick jeopardizes their security when he performs a risky brush pass with another illegal.

Rick is ordered to return to Russia. Cindy and the kids are living an idyllic suburban life. But which is more important to Cindy: being a good mom or a good spy?

Everything comes to a head in one weekend in June 2010. The FBI’s Operation Ghost Stories has to get everything right, or it all goes wrong.

Cindy and Rick's identity is under question. The future looks uncertain for the daughters who have lived their lives believing they are American girls.