The film Ballerina opens with a gripping scene at a hospital, where Eve Macarro (Victoria Comte) sits bloodied, clutching a spinning ballerina toy. A flashback reveals her peaceful life with her father, Javier (David Castañeda), shattered when armed men hunt him down. Javier, a skilled fighter, hides Eve and eliminates the intruders. Their leader, The Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne), confronts Javier, revealing a tangled past: Javier’s wife, Eve’s mother, was part of the Chancellor’s cult, and Javier, from a rival group, “stole” her, leading to her death. The Chancellor offers Javier a grim choice—suicide to spare Eve, or death for both if he resists. As Javier prepares to end his life, Eve’s cry stops him. He kills the gunmen but is fatally shot. Escaping with Eve as a bomb kills the remaining attackers (except The Chancellor), Javier dies before his daughter’s eyes.
At the hospital, Winston Scott (Ian McShane) offers Eve a new life with her father’s family, the Ruska Roma, under The Director (Anjelica Huston). Eve meets Nogi (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), who introduces her to the Kikimora—mythological spirits that reflect their host’s nature. Over twelve years, Eve (now Ana De Armas) trains relentlessly as a ballerina and assassin under The Director and Nogi, her skills growing lethal. Her only friend, Tatiana (Juliet Doherty), is expelled for lacking the Ruska Roma’s ruthless edge, leaving Eve isolated.
When John Wick (Keanu Reeves) visits the Ruska Roma (during John Wick: Chapter 3), Eve asks how to forge her own path. He tells her she must choose for herself. Soon, The Director sends Eve on her first mission: protect Katla Park (Sooyoung Choi) from assassin Il Seong (Doohong Jung). At a nightclub, Eve battles Seong’s men, killing them and stabbing Seong with a hammer’s peen, ensuring Katla’s safety.
Two months later, after another hit, Eve is ambushed by men with an X-shaped scar matching her father’s killers. She cuts off one’s hand and demands answers from The Director, who reveals the scar belongs to a cult but cites a truce preventing further action. Undeterred, Eve visits The Continental Hotel, where Winston, swayed by a gold token, assigns her to find Daniel Pine (Norman Reedus), an assassin with cult ties.
In Prague’s Continental, Eve confronts Pine, meeting his daughter, Ella (Ava McCarthy). As they negotiate, Lena (Catalina Sandino Moreno), a cult operative, alerts The Chancellor, who orders Eve’s death despite Continental rules. A doubled bounty on Pine tempts killers to break protocol. Eve and Pine fend off attackers, but Ella is kidnapped. Eve wakes among cult members; spared for not breaking rules, she watches the others executed. Back with the Ruska Roma, Eve faces Petra (Rila Fukushima) in a timed duel, killing her first. The Director orders Eve to abandon her vendetta.
Instead, Eve seeks Frank (Abraham Popoola), a gun shop owner, who reveals the cult’s hideout in the Austrian mountains after she saves him from an attack. In Halstatt, Eve battles cultists in a tavern, killing Agnetha (Magdalena Sittova) and arming herself with basement weapons. Captured, her Ruska Roma tattoo exposes her identity to The Chancellor. He reveals Lena is Eve’s sister, resentful for being left with the cult while Javier saved Eve. Ella, The Chancellor’s granddaughter, is to be trained as a killer. Ordered to die, Lena perishes in a grenade blast, but Eve survives.
The Chancellor declares Eve’s actions a war on the Ruska Roma, giving The Director until midnight to stop her. John arrives to confront Eve but, after a draw, allows her to face The Chancellor. Armed with a flamethrower, Eve incinerates cultists until Dex (Robert Masser) counters with his own. John snipes Dex’s tank, saving Eve. She kills the Chancellor’s men, frees Ella, and shoots The Chancellor dead.
Ella reunites with Pine at a hospital. Eve, now a target with a $5 million bounty, attends Katla’s ballet performance in New York, only to spot assassins closing in. She flees, ready for the next fight.
Ballerina is a heart-pounding addition to the John Wick universe, weaving intense action with Eve’s quest for justice and identity[wide].
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