Writer and director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, First Reformed) returns to examine tormented men, alienated from society in their search for atonement, in this atmospheric study of a fraught individual searching for a catharsis.

William Tell (Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis, Dune) is a meticulous professional gambler, good enough to count cards, but willing to settle for modest, yet consistent gains in order to avoid scrutiny. Traveling from casino to casino, he draws the attention of La Linda (Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip), a mysterious financier, who pushes him to play for higher stakes.

Tell’s spartan routine is interrupted when he is approached by Cirk (Tye Sheridan, Ready Player One, Tree of Life), a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel Willem Dafoe). It turns out that William acquired his card counting skills during a long stretch in prison for atrocities he committed as a soldier at Abu Ghraib and he shares a common enemy with Cirk.  However, Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk, but keeping his protégé on the straight-and-narrow proves impossible, and Tell finds himself facing the darkness of his past, and his only path for resolution is one of violence.