Rain Simmul

At the end of the 19th century, a serial killer strikes a small town, and an unlikely investigator races against time to catch him.

A young soldier stationed at the USSR-China border becomes obsessed with kung fu and seeks martial arts teachers at the most unlikely of places: the local Eastern Orthodox monastery. With a skeptical mother, a rival monk, and a budding love interest pulling him in different directions, his road is long, winding, and full of kick-ass adventures.