The five would-be burglars have unusual profiles and when Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) attends their hearing he finds that they are better represented than expected and one admits to being a former CIA agent.
Smelling something off he begins to collaborate with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) on the story.
He is shipped to "The Gorge" a giant mist-filled crevasse. He must crew the western watchtower and maintain the significant automated defensive perimeter, alone for a whole year. He's not there to keep people out but to keep what's inside from getting out.
His opposite number in the east watchtower, Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy), is there to do the same on the behalf of Russia: this is some post-WWII Great Powers joint project that has survived the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Communication across The Gorge is forbidden but as the months roll by boredom takes its toll and the pair start a weird long distance, drawn out flirtation.
No good will come of this.
CW: some body horror imagery
Contrary to stereotype the Arkham guards are occasionally humane and one (Brendan Gleeson) gets Arthur, who's been a compliant inmate, into a music therapy group. There he meets pyromaniac Lee (Lady Gaga), the two spark and suddenly Arthur has something to live for.
No good will come of this.
CW: some violence
When he arrives he finds that along with a prostitute Rita (Maya Rudolph) he has been chosen to test an experimental hibernation device that will revive the pair in one year's time.
No good will come of this.
CW: packed with slurs, generally offensive language, stereotypes and attitudes, which are all a key point of this pitch black satire
Now three years later the medical supplies that keep his son alive are exhausted so Will (Anthony Mackie) decides he has to go down into the nearest city to search for more. He is accompanied by hunter Katie (Maddie Hasson) and antisocial scientist Nina (Morena Baccarin) who has been working on something that might kill the "Reapers". She just needs to get to her old lab...
No good will come of this.
When he notices a lot of White Supremacist flyers in town he pulls out the one relating to the large compound nearby where the 'Aryan Nation' live. Speaking to the local Sheriff's office they reckon they keep themselves to themselves and aren't a problem. Later a Deputy Bowen (Tye Sheridan) takes him aside and says he thinks they're quietly up to a great deal of illegal activity including counterfeiting. The Deputy has been making a dossier of seemingly unrelated crime that he thinks fits a pattern.
No good will come of this.
CW: white supremacy, antisemitism, Nazi symbols, salutes and language; the whole gamut of this stuff
No good will come of this.
CW: vicious bloody dismemberment
He feels he has failed academically and is bitter at onetime colleagues who have been more successful. He's not a bad man and his family love him but his wife Janet (Julianne Nicholson) does admit he has asshole tendencies.
When people all over the world start to experience him being present in their dreams he "goes viral".
No good will come of this.
CW: some flashing images