"Focus" is a column in the Boston Globe. Robbie Robinson (Michael Keaton) is the editor of the "Focus" column. The column has an independent investigation team, including Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), Michael (Mark Ruffalo), and Matt Carroll (Brian darcy James). When Marty Baron (Levi Schreiber) took over as editor-in-chief of the Globe, he began to assign Robinson and his team to follow a long-hidden case in which a Catholic priest sexually harassed children in the parish. Although they thought it was just a small task at first, they soon discovered that there was a series of incidents behind it, involving hundreds of victims, and the church had privately compensated the victims and sent people to cover up these crimes. As the investigation went deeper, they found more evidence of the conspiracy, not just the clergy, but outside Boston and even around the world, such atrocities were being staged. Robinson and his team were hindered by local officials. Forces inside and outside the church were putting pressure on them to drop the case.