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Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

Anna (Sasha Luss) is a young beautiful girl who managed to make a career in the fashion world. More recently, she was a simple model from Moscow, but in a very short time, she was able to enter the elite. Once she entered the hotel of an influential and very dangerous person, after which a whole mountain of corpses was discovered there. The girl is being interrogated by special services, but she has absolutely nothing to tell them on this fact. She looks scared, and no one suspects her. Anna goes free and begins preparing for a new business. Under the guise of a fragile beauty, is hiding the world's most dangerous assassin, who has not yet misfired.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)

In 1985, in Moscow, the KGB headed by Vassiliev finds and eliminates several CIA agents operating in Russia. The agents were working all over Moscow and were picked simultaneously. The agents are a mix of male and females. Their heads are cut off and sent to the US Embassy as a message.

3 years later, Anna (Sasha Luss), a beautiful woman who has been the victim of domestic abuse with her boyfriend Petyr (Alexander Petrov), sees no point in continuing her life. She is forced to participate in stealing money from the credit cards of a kidnapped foreigner, which she resists, but is beaten up by Petyr. In a turning point of her life, she reluctantly accepts an offer by KGB officer Alex (Luke Evans) to serve the KGB for 5 years. Anna had applied to serve the Russian Navy but is picked up by Alex due to her military pedigree as her dad also served in the Navy.

After a year of training, she is to work as a KGB assassin for five years under a handler named Olga (Helen Mirren), after which she will be free to continue her life as she pleases. Olga is reluctant to take on Anna under her department as she thinks Anna is just a pretty face who can be used as a honey trap. But Anna impresses her with her knowledge and her ability to play chess.

Olga assigns Anna to kill a Russian drug lord at his HQ in under 5 mins. Anna doesn't know that the gun provided to her is unloaded and the Drug lord is surrounded by his army of bodyguards. Anna fights through the entire contingent and finally kills her mark but is late by over 1 minute. Olga classifies Anna as a failure, but agrees to try her out, when Anna refuses to act like a victim.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the director of the newly renamed SVR-RF head Vassiliev (Eric Godon) is not willing to honor this agreement, implying that the only way out of the KGB is death. Olga convinces Vassiliev by saying that agents don't usually survive 5 years in her department. Vassiliev also doubts Anna as KGB has no leverage on her. She has no ties in Russia.

In November 1990, Anna goes undercover as a fashion model and is hired to work in Paris. Olga and her team coordinate to ensure that the Agency's scouting agent "finds" Anna at a Russian vegetable market when he is looking for talent in Moscow. The agent says that Anna can continue her studies in University and the agency would pay for training, documentation, visa, and even her accommodation in Paris.

Anna is shifted to Paris. Dorothee is her assignment booking agent at the agency. John McKee is the owner of the agency. She is shown an apartment which she shares with other models of the agency including Maud. Anna is a natural at modeling. Anna takes on a lesbian lover Maud (Lera Abova), whom she uses as a cover during her assignments. She eliminates Oleg, an arms dealer who supplies weapons to Soviet enemies.

At the same time, she completes various missions and assassinations, while cleverly using a body double to avoid capture and identification by the CIA or the local Police. She is closely tracked by Olga. When she returns to Moscow during assignments she starts having sex with Alex. Anna is still worried about Vassiliev's threat and wants to get her freedom in 5 years. She makes the same clear to Alex.

When she is found out by the CIA, she agrees to work for them as a double agent with Agent Miller (Cillian Murphy) as her handler, in exchange for the promise of immediate retirement after a year of service and a protected life in Hawaii. Miller protects Anna and she starts having sex with him as well, knowing fully well that Olga was keeping complete track of all her movements.

Miller later tasks her with assassinating Vassiliev, with the CIA hoping that his absence would lead to smoother relations with the KGB. Miller tells Anna how he was the head of CIA in Moscow when Vassiliev killed 9 US agents in one day and hence they don't have any real assets in Russia now and need to rely on Anna.

Anna kills Vassiliev while the two play a game of chess and proceeds to shoot her way out of the Lubyanka Building. She doesn't kill Alex but then doesn't meet Miller at the rendezvous point either. Miller thinks Anna has gone rogue.

She then arranges a meeting with both Alex and Miller, returning information to each that she had previously stolen, but insinuating that a copy had been kept and would be released if anything happened to her. Alex tells her that the information will be stale and worthless in 6 months, but Anna responds that 6 months of freedom was more than she had ever experienced before.

By accepting the return of their data both Miller verbally, and Alex tacitly agree to allow Anna to disappear for as long as she can. The meeting area is under surveillance and Olga watches the meeting occur. Shortly after Anna leaves the meeting, Olga catches up to her and shoots her dead for betraying the Russian Federation. Miller and Alex hold each other at gunpoint, with Alex refusing to let Miller help Anna before both men are forced to retreat. Miller then attempts to get video proof that Anna is still alive, but her body is quickly collected by medical personnel before he can do so. It turns out that "Anna" is a body double. the real Anna slips into the sewers, changes her clothes, and removes the wig from her shaved head before vanishing into the shadows.

It is revealed that Olga had earlier revealed to Anna her knowledge of the CIA's planned assassination of Vassiliev. Both women conspired to go along with the CIA's plan as Olga wanted to take Vassiliev's place. As Olga moves into Vassiliev's former office, she views a recorded message left for her by Anna, who expresses her gratitude to Olga but reveals she kept evidence of Olga's involvement in Vassiliev's murder in case her old handler ever betrays their agreement. Olga smiles in admiration and proceeds to delete Anna's file from the SVR's official database.