In the beginning of the movie sniper (Harry Kemp), metivshy a terrorist, accidentally kills a hostage. Soon, he receives a new task - to protect the Russian chess player (Kaidanovsky), who is in danger. During the job, he learns about Kaidanovsky acquaintance with his wife (Frost), somehow speaking in Russian. She several times to meet with him, and soon they had to meet. All this time he has something like dreams or visions of past centuries and the Virgin Mary, who saves the life of his wife at the time of assassination of a chess player.