Set largely aboard a Japanese bullet train, a movie named for its mode of transportation features Brad Pitt as a newly confirmed pacifist assassin, code named Ladybug much to his dislike, is tasked with retrieving a mysterious briefcase. The assignment, given him by a female voice, handler Marie Beetle, is a “simple snatch and grad,” lending itself to his newly adopted nonviolent life journey in the aftermath of several wrong place, wrong time deaths surrounding previous jobs.