In 1950s Chicago, Leonard Burling (Academy Award winner Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies) a working-class Brit, who is Savile Row trained and owns a tailor shop with an interesting clientele.

He works diligently and with great pride crafting sublime suits for the macho mobsters who admire his work, as they are dressed to kill  Leonard ignores a steady stream of shady characters putting envelopes in a locked dropbox as his only friend and dear assistant, Mable (Zoey Deutch), dreams of escaping her plain life to travel the world. They both show great deference to the arrogant Richie Boyle (Dylan O’Brien), son of Irish mob boss Roy Boyle (Simon Russell Beale), when he collects the box. Richie is always accompanied by the scarred Francis (Johnny Flynn), a deadly hoodlum with a vicious disposition. On a fateful night, a panicked Richie and Francis stop by Leonard’s shop, as they are on the run from the cops and rival gangsters. The Outfit, a national crime syndicate the Boyles aspire to join, has given them important information, but there is a rat in the organization. Richie and Francis have a briefcase with evidence of the traitor, and they want their trusted tailor to hide it. This is a very risky undertaking for Leonard, particularly when law enforcement and every criminal in town is also searching for the briefcase.

Filmmaker Graham Moore (Academy Award-winning writer of The Imitation Game) has created a  gripping and consummate thriller with The Outfit, whose dramatic narrative  has many twists and turns as well as being so intricately constructed as Leonard must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive, in this ingenious one-location mystery that slowly unravels over the course of two nights.