1962. L’Américain Rydal (Oscar Isaac) vivote comme guide touristique à Athènes. Lorsqu’il rencontre le couple séduisant et mystérieux formé par Colette (Kirsten Dunst) et Chester MacFarland, il est immédiatement fasciné par son style de vie raffiné, empreint de luxe et de légèreté. Jusqu’au soir où Chester le somme de déplacer le corps inanimé d’un homme et qu’il se trouve ainsi attiré dans un engrenage fatal semé de meurtres et d’intrigues. S’ensuit un passionnant jeu du chat et de la souris jusque dans les ruelles étriquées du bazar d’Istanbul..
The psychological suspense story was based on Patricia Highsmith's novel Two Faces of January. A young man named Chester MacFarland (Charles Brauer) has embezzled a fortune from a U.S. bank, and after he and his wife escape to Switzerland to pick up his cash, they change their identities and head to Athens. Once safely in that city, they commit a second crime: they accidentally kill a police detective. A young archaeology student had been trailing after the couple since he first saw them because Chester looks just like his father. His curiosity puts him at the scene of the killing when it happens, and now all three protagonists face an uncertain future..
