Joe is a strong, taciturn killer. Joe and his mother live in the suburbs of New York, and the middleman John McCleary takes care of the commission. In the past, Joe was a boy who was abused by his violent father, and his mother had always encountered his father's fist. In the future life of Joe, every time he encounters unacceptable pain, he will count down, pretending that he is playing a game, and everything will stop after the game is over. After growing up, Joe joined the army, fought abroad, and worked for the FBI after returning home.
Joe was secretly hired by Nina's father, a state senator, to save his daughter, but then Joe began to doubt the other's motives, even the relationship between the senator and the girl. In the process of carrying out the rescue mission, Joe has been suffering from traumatic mental illnesses. He has thought about killing himself countless times, covering his nose and mouth, suffocating, swallowing blades, shooting headshots, and drowning. But the sense of responsibility for the "task" made Joe struggle forward in pain. He was afraid of more misfortunes and that he was unable to save more people. He did not dare to stop, even though he did not know where the future was
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