Ash (Riz Ahmed) is a scarred individual who through personal experience feels an almost obsessive need to help whistleblowers. He is extremely intelligent and has built up a system around him that is almost fool proof. It also leads to his debilitating sense of isolation and loneliness. This all changes when his world collides with Sarah (Lily James).
Sarah is a biochemist who works for a big tech company and is on the run because of becoming aware of a falsified report on an experimental wheat crop and becoming a whistleblower. It turns out the crop can be damaging to humans. Through a contact with a lawyer who can not help her she gets Ash’s contact details and her plight draws him in.
The impact on Sarah’s life is so great, all she wants to do is give back the document she stole and get her life back. This appeals to Ash in a more personal manner and his loneliness and need for female contact leads to him letting his guard down and bridging the gap that he always keeps between himself and his clients.
Dawson (Sam Worthington) runs the crew of company agents that is tasked with retrieving the documents and his reprehensible behaviour is a perfect representation of corporate maleficence. It’s to the credit of director David Mackenzie and writer Justin Piasecki that they have constructed a story that seethes with tension. This feeling of dread never lets up until the final reveal at the very end.
Rob Hudson
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