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.