The Story
Brothers Ben and Ian Moradi arrive in Los Angeles as refugees, haunted by a tragedy that forced them to flee Iran under deadly circumstances. The weight of their secret has shaped everything: Ben's obsession with following every rule, his belief that being the perfect immigrant will finally grant him safety, and Ian's growing resentment toward a system that treats them as outsiders.
Now in Los Angeles, Ben drives for Uber while studying for med school, living by a simple creed: keep your head down, obey the law, stay invisible. Ian has found his own path in the city's underworld, one that Ben desperately wishes he could ignore.
When a beaten and bloodied Russian girl throws herself into Ben's car, begging for help, Ben's carefully constructed world begins to crumble. Through a morgue worker who patches up the girl's wounds, Ben learns the devastating truth: she's escaped from sex traffickers, and her twin sister remains captive in their brutal operation.
The girl's plea cuts straight to Ben's heart: "You helped me. Why won't you help her?"
Torn between self-preservation and conscience, Ben is forced into the shadows of Los Angeles, a world where Russian mobsters run savage operations from behind the facades of trendy nightclubs. As Ben infiltrates this deadly landscape to reach the captive girl, he discovers that the criminal network reaches closer to home than he ever imagined.
But rescuing one innocent life will force Ben to confront everything he's tried to bury about his past, test the bonds with his brother, and discover that in a city where immigrant dreams collide with brutal realities, sometimes being a "good American" demands the ultimate price.
When the violence erupts, Ben will learn that some family secrets can't stay hidden forever, and that the past always collects its debts.
A relentless thriller about the cost of survival, the bonds of brotherhood, and the thin line between justice and vengeance in the American dream.
