A young girl is raised by a mysterious older woman and nurtured into becoming a deadly killer. Her task... destroy men infected with the distinctive gene of violence... the Shadow Gene.

However one day, an encounter with a seedy Corporate Executive shifts the balance between victim and perpetrator and the assassin realises that her path of vengeance is much more complicated than she thought and she is thrown headlong into a catharsis that uncovers fundamental aspects of corporate greed from the time of nineteenth century Luddites to the present super Capitalists. Meanwhile, the gene thrives, quietly inducing its bearers to continue showing contempt for human nature.

Shadow Gene, shot in London in grainy black and white reflects the noir-ish style of the French Nouvelle Vague as it follows an ethereal female assassin leading Corporate Executives to extinction, accompanied by a sparse piano complimenting the strands of narrative, fulfilling an important aesthetic representation of the anti-heroine with live action film, animation, photographs and graphics to underline its wholly experimental character.