Mark (Colin Farrell), un photographe de guerre réputé, en mission pour prendre l'ultime photo, est las de la poussière, du désespoir et de la violence et retourne chez lui sans son ami et collégue David (James Sives). Mais le temps s'écoule et il est de plus en plus évident que seul Mark connait la vérité boulversante entourant la disparition mystèrieuse de David.Hardened photojournalist Mark Walsh (Colin Farrell) doesn't hesitate to take on the assignment of documenting fighting in Kurdistan. His wife Elena (Paz Vega) is not as ecstatic about his choice, but he takes the assignment nonetheless. Mark heads to Kurdistan along with his his friend David (Jamie Sives), but returns later having lost his friend, and acting like a completely different person. Elena asks her father Joaquin (Christopher Lee), a highly experienced military pyschoanalyst, to help out. But as Joaquin attempts to help Mark remember his experiences for his own benefit, Elena has fresh anger at her father for some of his past actions in war as well.