Birth of an Assassin

The time, post second world war; the backdrop, Soviet Russia; the hero, Jez Kornfeld. We follow the transformation of Jez, from wide-eyed recruit to elite soldier to avenging outlaw. Amidst a murky underworld of flesh-trafficking, prostitution and institutionalized corruption, Jez is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems, nobody can be trusted, and everything can be violently torn from him.

Ordered to disperse and arrest a crowd of Jewish demonstrators in Red Square, Jez breaks up the rally but finds his sisters amongst the protesters. He sneaks the girls from under the noses of secret police and hides them in downtown Moscow. But they are no longer safe in Russia, and the rescue has compromised his own security. He has to get them out. Crossing into the Ukraine, he finds a port on the Black Sea and bribes passage from Soviet soil for his sisters, but he is unaware that his every move has been observed and that he is setting in motion a chain of events that will plunge his life into a headlong battle to stay alive.