在这部午夜艳阳爱情片中,its story is set in 1943 America. Fresh from graduate school, two young people (presumably Eisenberg and Hirsch) are recruited by the government for a top-secret project that will take them away from the jazz-soaked atmosphere of New York, and into the deserts of New Mexico. Kruger is expected to play one of the men's loyal wife, who is dragged along on their secretive scientific quest.
1943, as the war rages on, a group of young and brilliant minds set out for the desert of New Mexico - and as they build a bomb that might destroy the world, idealism and hope gives way to betrayal and obsessions.