Directed by Timur Bekmambetov, Profile follows an undercover British journalist, played by Valene Kane. Her quest is to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter, played by Shazad Latif, through social media while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

The unconventional thriller plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format pioneered by Bekmambetov.