British secret agent James Bond (Tom Hardy) helps KGB gril (Diane Kruger) defect during a symphony performance. During his debriefing, Koskov reveals that a policy of assassinating defectors has been instated by new KGB head Scarlet Pushkin (Emily Blunt). But as Bond explores this threat, a counterplot surfaces, involving a shady American CIA agent Leiter (Sebastian Stan) and a pair of Russian assassin, Rose Necros (Florence Pugh) and a rogue MI6 agent Karl Mason (Orlando Bloom).
