The film opens somewhere on the ocean. A crew led by a mysterious woman (Uma Thurman) pulls an iron maiden out of the water. After breaking it open, they discover the immortal Quynh (Veronica Ngo) in there, gasping for air.
In Croatia, The Old Guard – Andy (Charlize Theron), Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Nile (Kiki Layne), Joe (Marwan Kenzari), and Nicky (Luca Marinelli) – are targeting an arms dealer named Konrad (Slavko Sobin). Andy has been dealing with losing her immortality and trying to stay alive. Joe and Nicky create a distraction for Konrad’s goons, allowing the others to make their way into Konrad’s compound. Joe and Nicky battle the goons on the road, while Andy, Copley, and Nile enter the mansion and kill the remaining guards before going after Konrad. Andy and Nile shoot him off a balcony, where he falls to his death.
The team retreats to their hideout, where Copley tells them that Konrad was not the one buying the weapons, but actually the mysterious woman seen through CCTV footage. Nile recognizes her as someone she has seen in her dreams, going into a library and killing an unknown man (Henry Golding).
In Paris, the disgraced Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) is living out his exile in a drunken stupor. He walks into his apartment and is stunned to see Quynh standing there. She asks Booker how she can find Andy, as Quynh feels it was Andy’s fault that she was stuck underwater for 500 years.
Nile joins Joe and Nicky to look for Booker, while Andy and Copley go to find Tuah, another immortal who is the man in the library that Nile was dreaming about. Tuah brings Andy and Copley into his library, where he tells them about the mysterious woman. Her name is Discord, and she was the actual first immortal, not Andy. Tuah and Discord were also present at the time of Quynh’s execution, and they had different views on the mortals. Tuah doesn’t know what Discord wants with The Old Guard, but Andy discloses to him that she has lost her immortality.
The team reconvenes after Joe and Nicky have found Booker, and he gives Andy a message from Quynh. Nile joins her in going to find Quynh. When they do find her, Quynh expresses her rage towards Andy for her perceived abandonment. They briefly spar until Discord emerges, and it’s revealed Quynh is working with her. Nile approaches Discord in a church, where she tells Nile that it’s because of Andy’s interference in mortal affairs that the immortals get hunted. Discord calls herself the first immortal, while saying Nile will be the last.
Booker later talks to Tuah regarding Andy’s lost immortality. Booker tells him how Andy and Nile fought, and Nile wounded her. Tuah believes that this is the cause of Andy becoming mortal, as he thinks that Nile has the power to remove immortality if she were to wound one. Later at night, Quynh and several of Discord’s goons break into a facility and kill the guards.
Booker approaches Nile and challenges her to a sparring match. She injures him, which ends his immortality, but he doesn’t let anybody except Tuah know about this.
The team learns that the place that Discord and Quynh broke into is a nuclear facility, and they are setting up bombs there in an attempt to kill millions. Nile knows it’s a trap meant to lure them there, but the team heads off anyway.
The team makes it to the facility and takes on Discord’s goons. While the guys try to disarm the bombs, Booker sacrifices himself, resulting in Andy’s immortality returning when he takes a hit meant for her. He takes on a slew of guards and kills them, but ends up dying a permanent death. Meanwhile, Nile and Quynh fight, and Nile injures Quynh, taking away her immortality as well, but Discord also injures Nile.
Andy faces off against Discord on the roof of the facility, where Discord reveals that she lost her immortality, and she thinks Nile is key in getting it back, hoping that if she can take the immortalities of Joe, Nicky, and Tuah, that Discord can regain her own. Andy is outmatched, and Discord escapes with her captives.
Andy returns to library, where she is met by Quynh. They reconcile and team up to go after Discord together.[wide]
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