Malika waits in a desolate village clinging to the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. Her price is measured in tiny packets of heroin—just enough to feed the addiction consuming her existence. In this forgotten corner of Central Asia, human life holds little value against the vast profits of the opium trade.

The village exists solely as a way station for drug smuggling routes. Into this hellscape stumbles Dmitri Volkov, a mid-level Russian gangster fleeing his former KGB handlers. With nowhere else to hide from Moscow’s assassins, he finds reluctant sanctuary in a place where even hardened criminals tread cautiously. Volkov brings knowledge of Russian mafia expansion plans that could shift the balance of power in the region’s drug trade.

For decades, Afghan opium has been controlled by a delicate arrangement between local warlords and Tajik drug lord Rustam Nazarov. The Russian mafia threatens this equilibrium with European distribution networks and unlimited resources.

In a deadly power struggle, three ruthless forces converge: Nazarov’s established Tajik operation, the expanding Russian mafia, and the Afghan warlords—masters of the double-cross. In the middle stand Malika and Volkov, expendable pawns —human currency in a game where lives are collateral damage.