Based on the best-selling John le Carre novel, in a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor (Kounde), appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle (Fiennes), will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.

Directed by
Fernando Meirelles

Cast
Ralph Fiennes - Justin Quayle
Rachel Weisz - Tessa Quayle
Danny Huston - Sandy Woodrow
Bill Nighy - Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Pete Postlethwaite - Lorbeer
Hubert Kounde - Arnold Bluhm
Daniele Harford - Miriam
Packson Ngugi - Officer in Morgue
Damaris Itenyo Agweyu - Jomo's Wife
Bernard Otieno Oduor - Jomo

Production Co.
Potboiler Productions
Canal Plus
Scion Films
U.K. Film Council

Produced by
Gail Egan
Donald K. Ranvaud
Julia Blackman

Studio
Focus Features

Writer
John le Carre
Jeffrey Caine

Music
Alberto Iglesias