After leaving the navy, a tormented Second World War veteran with a fierce temper develops an intense relationship with a man starting his own religion. However, the former serviceman's darker impulses remain hard to control, especially when confronted with evidence of the cult leader's dishonesty. Paul Thomas Anderson's drama, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.