In 2044, the mob of the future disposes of its victims by sending them thirty years into the past, where a hitman called a looper executes them and makes the body disappear before the crime even exists. Joe lives comfortably off this trade until his next target turns out to be his own future self, who escapes and derails the plan. Rian Johnson builds a science-fiction thriller as elegant as it is twisted, using time travel to pose a moral dilemma with dizzying consequences about whom we would be willing to sacrifice.