After surviving an assassination attempt, a man is rehabilitated under the tutelage of a Korean martial arts master, returning to the states to become an avenging angel, ultimately protecting a life more precious to him than his own.

SYNOPSIS:

Dave Granger, loving husband and father, tried to make ends meet by taking a job as a driver, working for international business tycoon Jamong Takuma, acknowledging too late his criminal activities, most especially the murder of an undercover FBI agent. Approached by Special Agent James Jhang to testify against Takuma as a key witness for the FBI, Dave and his family are in is attacked by Takuma’s assassins the night before the hearing. Jhang spirits the injured Dave away to South Korea, where he begins a seven-year exile and rehabilitation under the care and tutelage of Master Baek, a harsh martial arts expert and defunct physician. His Christian faith sustains and strengthens him, and he triumphs over adversity.

When Dave falls in love with Baek’s daughter Sujin, he is expelled from the house. He changes his name to “Doboro” and, with his trusty walking stick, which conceals a sword as sharp as his wit, he returns to the states to eke out a simple life as a self-sufficient, visually impaired street musician in Kansas City. Unbeknownst to him, a video of one of his performances goes viral on the Internet, getting the attention former-special agent. James Jhang. Now retired from the FBI, Jhang appears at one of Dave’s blues club performances and informs Dave that his daughter, now a teenager, survived the assassination attempt seven years ago and resides with an adoptive family in Kansas City, herself a gifted young guitarist. Jhang, citing the possibility that Jamong Takuma could conceivably find him and his little girl, convinces Doboro to leave the city and put as much distance between them as possible. But before he can, they are both attacked by two of Takuma’s sword-wielding assassins. While Doboro defeats the killers, Jhang is killed, but not before revealing Drew’s last name, which Doboro uses to find her. Drew Holiday, thought by him to be a victim of Takuma’s assassination attempt, lives with an adoptive family. He first plans to remain temporarily as her anonymous protector until certain she had not been targeted. While passing by him in the park, captivated by Doboro’s cigar box slide guitar music, Drew asks him for guitar lessons. At first resistant, he agrees, not revealing who he truly is to her. But she is inexplicably drawn to him, and the two begin a precarious and even contentious relationship, which becomes sweeter over time. Certain her parents would object to their unlikely relationship, she does not tell them but resumes to build a cigar box guitar from scratch and learn slide guitar. In time, she invites her to her school’s Prism Concert, in which she is to perform a guitar solo. But when Drew’s parents finally learn about Doboro, everything blows up. Her father, an ex-cop is incensed and forbids Drew from having any contact with him again.

Doboro attends the concert and meets her outside the backstage exit. He tells her that he has to leave town, that bad men are after him, and he has stayed too long. She makes him promise to stay to at least her her perform, and she takes his cigar box guitar from his bag and uses it to expertly perform the very song he has been teaching her. But it is in the middle of he performance, however, that Drew sees several dark-suited men file into the auditorium and somehow knows they are dangerous. After the audience meets her performance with applause, she delivers a veiled message to Doboro. As she retires backstage, the fire alarm goes off, causing a panic about the attendees and other performers. Doboro joins her, having deciphered her message, But before they can exit, two of Takuma’s assassins attack. Doboro fights them off, and together he and Drew escape to the athletic field, where they encounter seven sword-wielding assailants, forcing the blind swordsman to face multiple attackers in a pitched, breathtaking battle with Drew too close at hand. Doboro prevails over Takuma’s men and in the aftermath reveals to Drew his true identity as her birth-father, which, it turns out, she already suspected. However, Dave realizes that he alone was Takuma’s target, not Drew and that Takuma is likely unaware that she lives. And to keep it that way, Doboro must leave her. Drew begs him to stay or to take her with him, but he cannot. Their parting is bitter and painful. In the last scenes, Drew plays her own cigar box guitar in her bedroom, gazing out the window while a solitaire Doboro catches a Greyhound bus for destinations and adventures unknown.