When a catastrophic technical failure destroys their on-air equipment, a hapless radio technician Ricky Gervais and a pompous, fading journalist Eric Bana find themselves in a desperate lie of global proportions. Rather than admit they never made it to Ecuador to cover a brewing political coup, the pair hole up in a New York apartment above a Spanish restaurant and begin fabricating sensational frontline reports. Their fictional warzone dispatches, fueled by the technician's surprising creativity and the journalist's crumbling ego, unexpectedly catapult them to fame and hero worship. As their fictional saga escalates with the help of the journalist's ambitious wife Vera Farmiga, who sees opportunity in the crisis, and under the nose of their suspicious boss Kevin Pollak, the two men must maintain the elaborate charade while their real lives spiral into comedic chaos. This satirical comedy from writer-director Ricky Gervais explores the absurd lengths people will go to preserve their reputations, delivering sharp wit alongside the farcical tension of a deception growing wildly out of control.