上个世纪，地震造成的死亡人数超过100万，但是预测本世纪可能会达到10倍。然而，当发生地震时，人们总是感到吃惊。
那么，为什么还没有制定出如何科学预测下一个大地震会发生的时间和地点？这是这个记录片所要试图了解的这个神秘力量的本质。
对我国四川省2008年5月的大地震之旅，以及臭名昭著的加利福尼亚州圣安德列斯断层，为什么科学迄今未能回答这一根本问题。

On the eve of the German federal elections, Andrew Marr looks at the enigmatic Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. She is the most important politician in Europe and the most powerful woman in the world. Yet she has been criticized by some for her lack of charisma and accused by others of trying to turn Europe into a Greater Germany. Andrew Marr delves into her childhood and background to discover what has shaped her political vision and style. Growing up in East Germany, the paranoid state at the heart of the Communist Eastern Bloc, then becoming a research scientist, she only entered politics in her mid-thirties after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her political journey has been marked by caution and compromise - but with occasional flashes of ruthlessness and an unyielding commitment to European Union. In this film, Andrew Marr lifts the veil on a very unusual politician.