A professional hitman wants to retire. The "Boss" does not allow that and instead of the payoff he orders his kill. But the kill fails and the hitman is out to get revenge.
Betrayed by his superior, Reza loses his wife and unborn child. After a botched suicide attempt, he wakes up with amnesia and attempts to start a new life but the past eventually creeps up to him, luring him back to a sure path of vegeance.
Twenty years after he helped put Jon Buice in a Texas prison, Ray Hill is fighting to free him. Filmed over eight years, The Guy With the Knife traces the history of the friendship between a prominent gay rights activist and a convicted 'gay bash' murderer, set against the backdrop of gay rights,...