这部影片讲述的故事发生在巴伦支海附近的小村中，但也可能发生在任何一个个人利益与政权利益发生冲突并且能够提前明确谁会赢得战斗的国家。贪得无厌的市长盯上了尼古拉一家所住的房子，并企图白占那块土地——实际就是强占。市长行为粗鲁，一切都在他的掌控之下，从警察局到法院，他知道如何驯服不顺从的人。

　　13世纪，成吉思汗之孙拔都汗率领数千勇士欲征服欧洲大片领土。正当无敌的蒙古鞑靼大军一路横扫之时，却遇到了梁赞公国一位名叫叶夫帕季·科洛夫拉特的工长，他带领17位勇士拼死抵抗外敌对古罗斯的入侵和统治。
　　本片故事源自于真实历史事件，号称俄罗斯版的“斯巴达300勇士”。

　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...

　　20世纪80年代末，苏联情报机构克格勃迎来了新一任掌门人瓦西列夫（艾力克·高敦 Eric Godon 饰）。随着他的上任，克格勃和美国中央情报局CIA的谍战平衡被打破，诸多潜伏苏联的CIA探员被捕，局势分外紧张。在此大环境下，军人后代安娜（萨莎·露丝 Sasha Luss 饰）却过着颓废堕落的生活。当处于人生最低点时，她被招募进了克格勃。凭借出众的外貌以及卓越的领悟力，安娜很快成为一名出色干练的特工。此后的岁月里，她如同一台无情的杀人机器，按照组织的命令处决了一个又一个目标。但是在安娜的内心最深处，她时刻渴望重新获得自由。
　　遗憾的是瓦西列夫决不允许有任何一名克格勃活着退出组织，在绝望之际，安娜的命运走到了十字路口……