Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a traumatized hired gun who rescues human trafficking girls, using brutal methods against their captors. He cares for his elderly mother (Judith Roberts) in his childhood home in New York City. Joe has flashbacks of the abuse he and his mother faced from his violent father, and his brutal past in the military and FBI, and is troubled by suicidal ideation. Directed by Lynne Ramsay.
