The pope is dead. The throne is vacant.
Oscar-winning director Edward Berger’s (All Quiet on the Western Front) sensational adaptation of Robert Harris’s bestselling thriller has at its heart one of the world’s most mysterious and ritualistic events – the election of a new pope. Following the sudden death of a beloved Pope, it falls to Cardinal Lawrence (Fiennes) to oversee the confidential, time-honoured process. But once the world’s most powerful Catholic leaders have gathered and are sequestered in the Vatican halls, Lawrence finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy, with an incendiary secret that could shake the very foundation of the Church.
