The film revolves around a young CIA agent named Maya (Jessica Chastain). When she arrives at a Pakistani secret agency, she is waiting for Dan (Jason Clark), an al-Qaeda expert also from the CIA, and an Arab prisoner named Amar. According to reliable sources, this person may have been funding bin Laden.

When Maya first met Amar, he was almost naked. Obviously, he was beaten and humiliated. He was not only deprived of the right to sleep, but also locked in a small cupboard. Then every once in a while, several people broke into the interrogation room and began to waterboard him repeatedly. It gives people a really horrible feeling, which makes it hard to look straight, and directly leads to the real theme here: an atrocity. But it will lead to more violence. Whether you are seeking justice or revenge, or any repayment method you want, you may not have seriously thought about whether this can really make up for the harm and pain you have suffered.