Narcotics, guns, prostitution, kidnapping, murder - it is all in a day's work for the Russian Mafia. The Cold War may be over, but the war on the streets is getting more and more brutal with each passing day. Andrei Stonov, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, finds himself in the center of this whirlwind when he crosses a major Mafia Boss in Chicago. Now he is caught in the middle of a power struggle between Russian Mafiosi. An intricate web of intrigue and betrayal is weaved by seemingly everyone around him. What shall bring him down: big money, and the ultimate power that it promises, or an assassin's bullet?