Anne Parillaud stars as Nikita, a drug-dependent homeless teenage delinquent, kills a police officer during a failed pharmacy robbery. In La Femme Nikita, she is sentenced to life imprisonment; in the American remake 'Point of No Return' (1993), she is condemned to death by lethal injection. In both versions, the government secretly fakes her death by drugging her, then coerces her into joining a covert agency that trains her to become an untraceable, elite assassin.