<P> Robert McCall ( Denzel Washington ) is a retired Marine and Defense Intelligence Agency operative who after promising his recently deceased wife that he would leave his old life behind lives quietly in Boston , Massachusetts and works at a Home Mart hardware store . McCall befriends many of his co-workers and helps a security guard trainee named Ralph pass his qualification exam . Unable to sleep , McCall spends some late nights reading in a 24 / 7 diner where he befriends Alina ( Chloë Grace Moretz ) , a teenage prostitute for the Russian Mafia ; McCall regales Alina with philosophical interpretations of the book he is currently reading , The Old Man and the Sea . </P>
<P> Robert McCall ( Denzel Washington ) is a retired Marine and Defense Intelligence Agency operative who after promising his recently deceased wife that he would leave his old life behind lives quietly in Boston , Massachusetts and works at a Home Mart hardware store . McCall befriends many of his co-workers and helps a security guard trainee named Ralph pass his qualification exam . Unable to sleep , McCall spends some late nights reading in a 24 / 7 diner where he befriends Alina ( Chloë Grace Moretz ) , a teenage prostitute for the Russian Mafia ; McCall regales Alina with philosophical interpretations of the book he is currently reading , The Old Man and the Sea . </P>
what city does the equalizer take place in
what city does the equalizer take place in
Boston , Massachusetts
Boston , Massachusetts