Russia's violent criminal underworld of the 1990s is the setting for this often-brutal thriller that tells the story of the mysterious Alien (Natalia Romanycheva), who, after being kidnapped by thugs, finds a way to stay alive until she's rescued in a horrific shootout. Once free, Alien sets about getting revenge on the Ukrainian gangsters who abducted and tortured her. Eventually, she claws her way to the top of her new criminal milieu.