Pu-239
“His family's future depends on one unstable element.”
Drama
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
VIBE
A grim, tense descent into the desperation of a man facing death. It's a stark, unflinching look at the lengths one might go to for family, set against a backdrop of bleak survival and moral compromise.
bleakgrittysombertenseslow-burnsocial realismcharacter-driven dramagrimy realismsurvivaldesperationconsequencesmorality
plutoniumblack marketnuclear radiationterminal illness
