The Taliban itself is represented by two soldiers — one
whose violent tendencies are succinctly dissected when he's called into an actual fight and another who possesses an unexpected level of kindness, as well as an eventual realization of loss.
Phoenix plays a tormented, hammer - wielding Gulf War veteran with
violent tendencies living in New York, where he's regularly recruited to find missing children, including a teenager (Ekaterina Samsonov)
whose whereabouts uncover secrets about sex trafficking and political corruption.