Through them, she learns her husband's diaries may hold the key to a number of state secrets, of which could blow the lid off of any number of international conspiracies, governmental manipulations and foreign policy scandals. The FBI wants Fay to retrieve the manuscripts. She decides to do it, but only if Simon gets released from prison.

Things pick up considerably when Faye leaps from New York to Paris to Istanbul, as she is forced to look for the missing man she married – who is very much alive and on the run - and for those notebooks which may be a ticking bomb of corrupt government incrimination.

Hartley, a director who first made his mark with a handful of movies (The Unbelievable Truth, Trust), tries to get his mojo back with this sequel, magnifying his signature flavour; quick cuts with sharp angles, off-beat humor and quick bursts of monotone dialogue.