In Dear Darkness, Antoinette Zwirchmayr shows the clash of three former best friends in a villa out of another time. She stages them and all their expectations, insecurities, and fears in twelve images in rooms exuding the stately sheen of a lost era and the sober abstraction of a black box. Trapped between the wish to project a good image while also opening up to each other, the women bide their time and come to a standstill. But in an interplay of bodies and speech, poses and gazes, decorations and costumes, the chamber piece transitions into enigmatic movement. A film in the realm of highly compressed signs and allegories with references ranging from melodramas and minimalistic art to love songs and absurdist theater.

偏僻的俄罗斯驻防军区，两列火车相撞爆炸。随即发生了一场匪夷所思的核爆炸，俄罗斯境内造成重大伤亡。美国白宫反核走私情报部门的朱莉亚·凯利（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman饰）博士怀疑这起核意外并非偶然发生的事故。为了追查这起爆炸的始末，查明背后的真相，朱莉亚与陆军特种部队的少尉托马斯·威尔（乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney饰）受命展开调查。他们在艰苦的调查中，竟发现了一个惊天大阴谋。一名冒充政客的核恐怖分子已携带核弹头进入美国本土，欲炸毁设在纽约的联合国总部。
女导演咪咪·莱德的电影处女作《末日戒备》，根据资深调查记者安德鲁·科伯恩和莱斯利·科伯恩的文章改编而成，其中素材源于科伯恩夫妇收集的解密情报和真实新闻事件。