In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...

Ethan Hunt, a secret agent blamed for the deaths of his espionage team, goes on a desperate run for his life, trying to stay alive long enough to learn the truth about what happened to his colleagues and who tried to frame him for the crime.