Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and Vincent Cassel star in this thriller directed by genre icon David Cronenberg, and concerning a na?ve London midwife (Watts) who unwittingly stumbles into a clandestine Russian sex trafficking ring while investigating the identity of a young Russian woman who tragically died in childbirth. Upon crossing paths with the ruthless Nikolai (Mortensen), who shares close ties with one of London's most notorious crime families, the unassuming midwife realizes that she has become inexorably intertwined with a Russian police investigation staged to expose a brutal prostitution racket set up by the Russian Mafia.