RELAY

Tom (Ahmed) brokers deals between parties who never learn what he looks like, sounds like, or where he’s located. A brilliant manipulator of technologies old and new, Tom’s primary method of communication is a telephone relay service where operators are legally bound to withhold the identities of their users. Tom’s latest client is Sarah Grant (Lily James, TIFF ’17’s Darkest Hour), a former bio-tech company staffer who’s been on the run since stealing documents that, if made public, would be scandalous for her employer. Sarah now wants to return the documents in exchange for whatever remuneration she can get.

The case should be business as usual for Tom, but the henchmen hired to follow Sarah are ruthless and dogged. What’s more, Tom begins to connect with Sarah on a personal level, potentially compromising the private existence he’s worked so arduously to construct.