

The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Acting
Farrell's haunted, wordless breakdowns hit different
Direction
Tanović balances political rage with intimate grief
Cinematography
Bleached Kurdistan flashbacks vs. claustrophobic Dublin

Director
Danis Tanović
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Scott Anderson's novel, itself drawn from his own war correspondent experiences in Kurdistan. Tanović (No Man's Land) knows this terrain personally.
Christopher Lee's final dramatic role before his death—he plays Elena's grandfather with fragile gravitas, and reportedly chose it specifically to work with Tanović.