It stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby, Jürgen Prochnow, Igal Naor, Navid Negahban and John Hurt.

Ari Ben-Sion, an Israeli spy posing as a German businessman named Hans Hoffmann in 1989 Berlin, receives orders to travel to Damascus to help a Jewish family escape the country.

Soon, however, he realizes that the local security services are aware of his true identity as an Israeli spy and are monitoring him closely, leaving him uncertain as to why he hasn’t been eliminated.

As a series of unexpected twists unfold, Ben-Sion discovers that his real mission is to help exfiltrate a senior Israeli agent known only as "The Angel" from Syria.

In February 2015, it was announced Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Hurt, Olivia Thirlby, Igal Naor, Jürgen Prochnow, and Navid Negahban joined the cast of the film, with Daniel Zelik Berk directing from a screenplay he wrote alongside Samantha Newton, from the novel of the same name by Howard Kaplan.