A well-to-do British family’s luxurious Acapulco vacation is cut short when an untimely death calls them back to London. At the airport, Neil (Tim Roth) pretends to have forgotten his passport back at the hotel and sends his family off, insisting that he will join them in London on the very next flight. Instead, however, he checks himself into a cheap hotel in a seedier area of town and spends the next several days getting drunk on the tourist beach, ignoring the numerous frantic cell phone calls from his family.
Acclaimed filmmaker Michel Franco offers an unsettling portrait of a man unraveling at the midpoint of his life. The threat of violence hanging in the air heightens the tension of Neil’s strange behavior. As we learn more about Neil and his rupture, the fragility of the human psyche comes into increasingly sharper focus.