A blood-saturated thriller about a ruthless contract killer and the couple he takes hostage, The Mechanism opens as Mak (Nikola Kojo), the assassin in question, embarks on his next job with his dim protege Debeli (Gordan Kicic) in tow. Schoolteacher Snezana (Ivana Mihic, who also produced) and taxi driver Janko (Andrej Sepetkovski) have the misfortune to cross paths with Mak; after raping Snezana and mocking Janko, the killer forces them to accompany him on a spree of random violence and bloodshed.