Hannie Reynard landed every aspiring filmmaker's dream: a hefty grant to make her documentary, Freaks or Frauds. But the groundbreaking film that was supposed to launch Hannie's career may be killing her first. Blowing the grant money on a lost weekend in Paris was bad enough, but now the "stars" of her film - the women who share a unique genetic trait - have stopped talking and started disappearing.

Blackmailed into accepting a burned-out colleague as her cameraman, Hannie follows a perilous trail that leads her and her crew towards a powerful puppet master with a deadly obsession. And closing in on them all is a ruthless hit man with a shooting schedule of his own...