The Secret Agent chronicles the socio-political realities of Brazil under military dictatorship in 1977. Wagner Moura plays a former academic who returns to his hometown, Recife, to reunite with his son. He awaits his fake passport to flee the country, while two hitmen hired by a corrupt minister pursue him

As Spike joins Jimmy Crystal`s gang of Satanists and sadistic killers, and Kelson`s treatment begins eliminating Samson`s violent tendencies, the film questions innate humanity and pushes the audience to consider whether the infected are merely threats to be eliminated or broken souls caught between what they were and what they have become