When cynical magician's assistant Gwen meets a mysterious foreigner she learns that her employer has a dark secret.
Gwen, despite her job as an assistant to the Russian magician Nikolay, finds magic ridiculous and the people who would pay to see it more so. Then one evening she is approached by the mysterious Peter, who not only informs her of Nikolay's dark past but recruits her for a dangerous mission...—Thomas Baumgardner