Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A passionate love affair follows, but when her relationship with Arslan sours, Joan decides to make a new life for herself. Yet there is no mistaking that her son Harry is a prodigy. Inevitably Joan is soon pulled back into a world she thought shed left behind.