Following a tragic car accident in Greece, an American tourist finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life.
While vacationing in Greece, American tourist Beckett (John David Washington) becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.—Netflix
Beckett (John David Washington), an American tourist, leaves Athens, Greece with his girlfriend April (Alicia Vikander) to escape political unrest there. Beckett and April had recently had a fight, and they made up the next morning. Backett and April are very much in love. April had a habit of looking at ordinary people and guessing what they did in real life. Beckett plans everything meticulously and is not super happy that they had to deviate from their chosen itinerary.
While driving to their hotel late at night on a deserted road, at a mountain village in the region of Epirus, Beckett falls asleep at the wheel and crashes their car into a nearby house after rolling down the side of a mountain. April is killed in the accident (as she was not wearing her seat-belt and was thrown from the car through the windshield), but while trapped in the wreck Beckett sees a boy being hurried out of the house by a blonde woman.
Beckett is checked into a hospital and has to be administered a plaster for his broken left arm.The next day Xenakis (Panos Koronis), a local police officer, interviews Beckett and tells him that he was lucky that the house he crashed into was abandoned; however, Beckett tells Xenakis about seeing the boy and the woman. Beckett is able to describe the boy fairly accurately. Beckett wants to see April's body, but Xenakis says that the mortician has the key, and he had left for the day. Xenakis allows Beckett to call April's parents to inform them of her death.
After leaving the police station, Beckett goes back to the house (where April died) with the intention of killing himself (with an overdose of Ambien tablets), but before he can do so the blonde woman (Lena Kitsopoulou) returns and shoots at him. Beckett manages to hide himself in the wild bushes surrounding the house.Xenakis arrives soon after and tells him it is safe to come out of hiding, but after he reveals himself, Beckett is wounded in the arm as both the woman and Xenakis shoot at him and give chase. Beckett jumps off a cliff and escapes.
After spending the night in an abandoned truck, Beckett is found by a group of hunters who bring Beckett back to town, with one taking Beckett to his house to see to his injuries. Thankfully the bullet that hit him in the arm went straight through the flesh, leaving him with a surface wound.Xenakis and the woman soon arrive, and Beckett jumps out of a window to escape again. He happens upon two beekeepers who lend him a phone. He calls the U.S. embassy in Athens, but unable to wait for their help (They say it will take 24 hours to reach him) Beckett tells them he will make his own way to the embassy. The beekeepers inform him that Athens is 5 hours by road, but Buckett had no vehicle. They guide him to the nearest train station at Kalambaka, which was at the bottom of the valley, and a fair distance away. He gets lucky and takes a lift on a tourist bus to the train station.
He boards a train to go back to Athens, but Xenakis finds him and attempts to detain him, but Beckett pulls the train's emergency brake and in the ensuing struggle Xenakis ends up getting shot in the foot and Beckett once again escapes.
Beckett sees posters of the boy being put up by two activists, Lena (Vicky Krieps) and Eleni (Maria Votti). They tell him that the boy is Dimos Karras, the kidnapped son of a liberal politician who has been allegedly taken by a far-right organization who had the police in their pockets. They drive Beckett to Athens, but he is forced to part ways with them to avoid a police roadblock and takes the subway to the U.S. embassy, where he is attacked by a knife-wielding man. Managing to reach the embassy, he is taken in by embassy staffer Tynan (Boyd Holbrook), who informs him that April's body had been sent to the embassy, and Beckett is taken to the morgue to view her body.
Beckett tells Tynan about Dimos' kidnappers and the activists, and Tynan offers to take him to an honest cop to sort things out. However, after leaving the embassy, Tynan tries to incapacitate Beckett with a taser, but he is able to escape. Beckett meets up with Lena and Eleni (they had told him where they were likely to be for the protest) to warn them about Tynan, but he soon arrives with the police and chases Beckett to a political rally. Shots are fired at the rally and among the chaos Beckett takes refuge in a basement where he is cornered by Tynan, who tells him Dimos Karras' father has just been assassinated at the rally. Tynan reveals that Karras had secretly owed an organized crime syndicate money, who then kidnapped his son in retaliation but deflected the blame onto his political enemies, also implying that the U.S. had a role to play in the deception. Fearing that Beckett had uncovered the truth behind Dimos' kidnapping, they went after him. Although Tynan assures Beckett that with Karras dead, he is now free to go, Beckett knocks him out.
Beckett returns to the site of the rally to reunite with Lena and Eleni but sees the blonde woman who had kidnapped Dimos. He follows her to a parking garage, where she meets up with Xenakis with Dimos locked in the trunk of his car. Before they can escape, Beckett shoots Xenakis in the hand and struggles with the blonde woman. He is shot but manages to knock her out, then runs after Xenakis as he tries to drive away. Beckett manages to jump onto the car from the top of the parking garage and knocks out Xenakis, finally rescuing Dimos. In the final scene, Beckett looks down at his palm and notices a heart April had drawn on his hand before the crash, reflecting on how he should have died.
