diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/anchor.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/anchor.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..28ceeedceb431f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/anchor.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import _ from 'lodash';
+
+import {addComputedFields} from './utils/fields';
+import {createAnchorQuery} from './utils/queries';
+
+
+async function fetchAnchor(es, indexPattern, uid, sort) {
+  const indices = await indexPattern.toIndexList();
+  const response = await es.search({
+    index: indices,
+    body: addComputedFields(indexPattern, createAnchorQuery(uid, sort)),
+  });
+
+  if (_.get(response, ['hits', 'total'], 0) < 1) {
+    throw new Error('Failed to load anchor row.');
+  }
+
+  return _.assign({}, response.hits.hits[0], {
+    $$_isAnchor: true,
+  });
+}
+
+
+export {
+  fetchAnchor,
+};
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/context.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/context.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..d2699a502757f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/context.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import _ from 'lodash';
+
+import {addComputedFields} from './utils/fields';
+import {getDocumentUid} from './utils/ids';
+import {createSuccessorsQuery} from './utils/queries.js';
+import {reverseQuerySort} from './utils/sorting';
+
+
+async function fetchContext(es, indexPattern, anchorDocument, sort, size) {
+  const indices = await indexPattern.toIndexList();
+  const anchorUid = getDocumentUid(anchorDocument._type, anchorDocument._id);
+  const successorsQuery = addComputedFields(
+    indexPattern,
+    createSuccessorsQuery(anchorUid, anchorDocument.sort, sort, size)
+  );
+  const predecessorsQuery = reverseQuerySort(successorsQuery);
+
+  const response = await es.msearch({
+    body: [
+      {index: indices},
+      predecessorsQuery,
+      {index: indices},
+      successorsQuery,
+    ],
+  });
+
+  const predecessors = _.get(response, ['responses', 0, 'hits', 'hits'], []);
+  const successors = _.get(response, ['responses', 1, 'hits', 'hits'], []);
+
+  predecessors.reverse();
+
+  return {
+    predecessors,
+    successors,
+  };
+}
+
+
+export {
+  fetchContext,
+};
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/fields.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/fields.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b9a78aec3a20b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/fields.js
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import _ from 'lodash';
+
+
+function addComputedFields(indexPattern, query) {
+  const computedFields = indexPattern.getComputedFields();
+
+  return _.assign({}, query, {
+    script_fields: computedFields.scriptFields,
+    docvalue_fields: computedFields.docvalueFields,
+    stored_fields: computedFields.storedFields,
+  });
+};
+
+
+export {
+  addComputedFields,
+};
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/ids.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/ids.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..42bd4fac8b5114
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/ids.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+function getDocumentUid(type, id) {
+  return `${type}#${id}`;
+}
+
+
+export {
+  getDocumentUid,
+};
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/queries.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/queries.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..410c2d85e50fc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/queries.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+function createAnchorQuery(uid, contextSort) {
+  return {
+    _source: true,
+    query: {
+      terms: {
+        _uid: [uid],
+      },
+    },
+    sort: [contextSort],
+  };
+};
+
+function createSuccessorsQuery(anchorUid, anchorSortValues, contextSort, size) {
+  return {
+    _source: true,
+    query: {
+      match_all: {},
+    },
+    size,
+    sort: [ contextSort, { _uid: 'asc' } ],
+    search_after: anchorSortValues.concat([ anchorUid ]),
+  };
+};
+
+
+export {
+  createAnchorQuery,
+  createSuccessorsQuery,
+};
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/sorting.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/sorting.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..ac2ce09f622bbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/api/utils/sorting.js
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import _ from 'lodash';
+
+
+function reverseQuerySort(query) {
+  return _.assign({}, query, {
+    sort: _.get(query, 'sort', []).map(reverseSortDirective),
+  });
+}
+
+function reverseSortDirective(sortDirective) {
+  if (_.isString(sortDirective)) {
+    return {
+      [sortDirective]: (sortDirective === '_score' ? 'asc' : 'desc'),
+    };
+  } else if (_.isObject(sortDirective)) {
+    return _.mapValues(sortDirective, reverseSortDirection);
+  } else {
+    return sortDirective;
+  }
+}
+
+function reverseSortDirection(sortDirection) {
+  if (_.isObject(sortDirection)) {
+    return sortDirection.order = reverseSortDirection(sortDirection.order);
+  } else {
+    return (sortDirection === 'asc' ? 'desc' : 'asc');
+  }
+}
+
+
+export {
+  reverseQuerySort,
+  reverseSortDirection,
+  reverseSortDirective,
+};
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/app.html b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/app.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..ae0d21cba24cea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/app.html
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<div class="app-container">
+  <kbn-top-nav name="context" config="topNavMenu">
+    <!-- Transcluded elements. -->
+    <div data-transclude-slots>
+      <!-- Breadcrumbs. -->
+      <div data-transclude-slot="topLeftCorner" class="localBreadcrumbs">
+        <div class="localBreadcrumb">
+          <span class="localBreadcrumb">Context</span>
+          <span ng-bind="contextApp.indexPattern.id" class="localBreadcrumb"></span>
+          <span ng-bind="contextApp.anchorUid" class="localBreadcrumb"></span>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </kbn-top-nav>
+
+  <div class="container-fluid" role="main">
+    <div class="row">
+      <div class="col-md-12">
+        <div class="discover-table" fixed-scroll>
+          <doc-table
+            hits="contextApp.rows"
+            index-pattern="contextApp.indexPattern"
+            sorting="contextApp.sort"
+            columns="contextApp.columns"
+            infinite-scroll="true"
+          >
+          </doc-table>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/app.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/app.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f3e84883544e6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/app.js
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+import _ from 'lodash';
+
+import uiModules from 'ui/modules';
+import contextAppTemplate from './app.html';
+import {fetchAnchor} from './api/anchor';
+import {fetchContext} from './api/context';
+
+
+const module = uiModules.get('apps/context', [
+  'kibana',
+  'ngRoute',
+]);
+
+module.directive('contextApp', function ContextApp() {
+  return {
+    bindToController: true,
+    controller: ContextAppController,
+    controllerAs: 'contextApp',
+    restrict: 'E',
+    scope: {
+      anchorUid: '=',
+      columns: '=',
+      indexPattern: '=',
+      size: '=',
+      sort: '=',
+    },
+    template: contextAppTemplate,
+  };
+});
+
+function ContextAppController($q, es) {
+  this.anchorRow = null;
+  this.rows = [];
+
+  this.initialize = () => {
+    this.actions.reload();
+  };
+
+  this.actions = {
+    fetchAnchorRow: () => (
+      $q.resolve()
+        .then(() => (
+          fetchAnchor(es, this.indexPattern, this.anchorUid, _.zipObject([this.sort]))
+        ))
+        .then(anchorRow => (
+          this.anchorRow = anchorRow
+        ))
+    ),
+    fetchContextRows: () => (
+      $q.resolve(this.anchorRowPromise)
+        .then(anchorRow => (
+          fetchContext(es, this.indexPattern, anchorRow, _.zipObject([this.sort]), this.size)
+        ))
+        .then(({predecessors, successors}) => {
+          this.predecessorRows = predecessors;
+          this.successorRows = successors;
+        })
+        .then(() => (
+          this.rows = [].concat(this.predecessorRows, [this.anchorRow], this.successorRows)
+        ))
+    ),
+    reload: () => {
+      this.anchorRowPromise = this.actions.fetchAnchorRow();
+      this.contextRowsPromise = this.actions.fetchContextRows();
+
+      $q.all([
+        this.anchorRowPromise,
+        this.contextRowsPromise,
+      ]);
+    },
+  };
+
+  this.initialize();
+}
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/index.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4ab2e84800fba6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/context/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import uiRoutes from 'ui/routes';
+import './app';
+import {getDocumentUid} from './api/utils/ids';
+
+
+uiRoutes
+.when('/context/:indexPattern/:type/:id', {
+  controller: ContextAppRouteController,
+  controllerAs: 'contextAppRoute',
+  resolve: {
+    indexPattern: function ($route, courier, savedSearches) {
+      return courier.indexPatterns.get($route.current.params.indexPattern);
+    },
+  },
+  template: (
+    `<context-app
+      anchor-uid="contextAppRoute.anchorUid"
+      columns="['_source']"
+      index-pattern="contextAppRoute.indexPattern"
+      size="5"
+      sort="['@timestamp', 'desc']"
+    >`
+  ),
+});
+
+
+function ContextAppRouteController($routeParams, indexPattern) {
+  this.anchorUid = getDocumentUid($routeParams.type, $routeParams.id);
+  this.indexPattern = indexPattern;
+}
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/discover/styles/main.less b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/discover/styles/main.less
index 22de7213c8e35c..2131efbb0b2b44 100644
--- a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/discover/styles/main.less
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/discover/styles/main.less
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@
       font-size: 9px;
     }
 
+    .discover-table-row--highlight {
+      font-weight: bold;
+    }
+
 .shard-failures {
   color: @discover-shard-failures-color;
   background-color: @discover-shard-failures-bg !important;
diff --git a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/kibana.js b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/kibana.js
index 5815cc33c2d151..9da35d7ef166e8 100644
--- a/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/kibana.js
+++ b/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/kibana.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import 'plugins/kibana/dashboard/index';
 import 'plugins/kibana/management/index';
 import 'plugins/kibana/doc';
 import 'plugins/kibana/dev_tools';
+import 'plugins/kibana/context';
 import 'ui/vislib';
 import 'ui/agg_response';
 import 'ui/agg_types';
diff --git a/src/ui/public/doc_table/doc_table.html b/src/ui/public/doc_table/doc_table.html
index 68cd1e0c3d4f24..04a5c87ae13fa1 100644
--- a/src/ui/public/doc_table/doc_table.html
+++ b/src/ui/public/doc_table/doc_table.html
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
         sorting="sorting"
         index-pattern="indexPattern"
         filter="filter"
-        class="discover-table-row"></tr>
+        class="discover-table-row"
+        ng-class="{'discover-table-row--highlight': row['$$_isAnchor']}"></tr>
     </tbody>
   </table>
   <kbn-infinite-scroll ng-if="infiniteScroll" more="addRows"></kbn-infinite-scroll>
@@ -43,4 +44,4 @@
 <div ng-if="hits != null && !hits.length" class="table-vis-error">
   <h2><i class="fa fa-meh-o"></i></h2>
   <h4>No results found</h4>
-</div>
\ No newline at end of file
+</div>