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This book reveals a family history and era that have been hidden for decades through 20-year archives of the Hungarian secret police during the Cold War. During the Cold War, in Hungary, a member of the Soviet bloc, the secret police tried to fully penetrate and control Hungary's political life through a huge informant network. The author's parents were famous Hungarian journalists, and their reports were an important source of information for the West to understand Hungary. Therefore, they were regarded as "enemies of the people" and were monitored by the secret police for a long time. They were eventually imprisoned for treason and espionage. After the family immigrated to the United States, the Hungarian government tried to recruit them as spies, and the United States monitored them for several years. The book not only restores the experience and encounters of the Martons when they were surrounded by informants, but also shows their emotions and inner contradictions - the mutual emotional betrayal and support in disasters between husband and wife, the love and affection between parents and children, and the strength and weakness of human nature.