The main character Johnny is an MI5 officer closely connected with
his boss in their Cambridge old boys’ network. One aspect of
the movie is their turf battle with a female Minister and colleague spying each
other and changing political dynamics in the reorganization of the intelligence community.
In the end Johnny whistle-blew a case on behalf of a young pretty Syrian
woman next door and left the country and his job. Their intergenerational fleeting friendship is based
on humanity, only slightly romantic and almost never physical, which reminded
me of another movie Lost in Translation.
