Russia's campaign against political opponents through poison runs through this film case by case, built around the 2004 attack on Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian presidential candidate who survived a near-fatal dose of dioxin that left his face disfigured mid-campaign. Interviews and reconstructions trace how the poison was administered, how doctors identified it, and how Yushchenko went on to win the presidency despite it. The film places the Yushchenko case inside a longer pattern of assassinations and attempted assassinations carried out or ordered by Russian state actors against defectors, journalists, and dissidents, and points to a unit known as Lab X as the ongoing source of these poisons. Made for Sky One in the UK and broadcast in April 2005, the documentary predates the Alexander Litvinenko polonium poisoning in London by more than a year, so its warning that the practice had not stopped reads, in hindsight, as prediction rather than hindsight. The focus stays on method and evidence: who was poisoned, with what, and how the trail led back to Moscow.