Warren Beatty writes, directs and stars in this life story of John Reed, the radical socialist journalist who became the only American to be buried in the Kremlin. Focusing on Reed's relationship with Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), it follows their life together as they move from bohemian Greenwich Village, to the seafront cottage where Bryant has an affair with playwright Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson), to the battlegrounds of the First World War and Russia during the time of the 1917 revolution. The epic story is intercut with real-life interviews with those who knew the couple, including the novelists Henry Miller and Rebecca West.