In the tense weeks before the 1973 military coup that would topple Chile's government, veteran CIA officer Chris and his younger partner Lee are dispatched from Santiago to remote Easter Island on a mission from their bureau chief. Amid the island's towering Moai statues, the two men, bound by a long and complicated partnership, are forced to confront old regrets, buried mortality and fraying loyalty, even as the American hand in the coming catastrophe looms inescapably in the background. Marking writer-director Martin McDonagh's first feature since The Banshees of Inisherin, the film premiered in competition at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, where John Malkovich won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. A reflective, unexpectedly emotional entry in McDonagh's filmography that finds real depth in regret, mortality and friendship, even where using a real historical catastrophe as backdrop for two old friends' reconciliation draws valid criticism for its self-absorption.