The hunt for the psyochopath who mutilated and killed his wife and daughter leads high society insurance broker Michael into a murky swamp of organized crime, drugs and sex that seems to be swallowing him whole before he learns to tell friend from foe.

After a psychopath brutally mutilates and murders his wife Marie and daughter Eva, Michael embarks on a desperate hunt for the killer. His only clue a strange symbol painted in blood on the wall by the predator. Soon, however, Michael's search leads him into a swamp of organized crime, drug and gun smuggling, more murders and sex. He finds himself in danger of sinking into the abyss, with gambling debts, depression and addiction to pills driving him further and further into the muck. When violent ganglord Mitya sets him a deadly ultimatum to pay his debts and on top of that Michael's girlfriend, self-absorbed stripper Darja, puts him under pressure, he decides to rob his best friend Sebastian in order to start a new life. But when Sebastian arranges a lucrative business deal for him in Florida, Michael finds himself in a conflict of conscience that he can only lose. On the joint business trip to the U.S., however, an unknown, dark side of Sebastian surfaces and just when it seems to Michael that he is on the right track, it leads to an unexpected and consequential reunion with the killer.