Jason Price, a former government official, makes a profession by making people vanish. However, when a top lieutenant for a crime organization requests Price's assistance in disappearing, the situation takes a horrific and unexpected turn. The Cleaner, a mysterious hit man, has infiltrated Price's tightly guarded system, leaving a murderous trail behind. With the assistance of an enigmatic seductress posing as the mobster's chief assistant, Price works methodically through his network of associates to determine what went wrong, and is sucked into a spiraling maze of half-truths and outright lies in which nobody is who they appear to be and everyone has a lethal, hidden agenda.