Eye in the Sky akan mengisahkan tentang sebuah operasi intelijen Drone militer yang bertugas mengawasi pergerakan teroris. Tujuan untuk menangkap pelaku bom bunuh diri menjadi sulit saat lokasi penangkapan yang akan dihancurkan ternyata terdapat anak kecil.
Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Miren) dihadapkan pada situasi yang sangat sulit. Selaku pimpinan operasi ia harus segera memutuskan, apakah menghancurkan persembunyian teroris saat ada anak kecil atau menundanya dengan resiko para pelaku bom bunuh diri telah berpencar untuk melakukan aksinya.
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.