A House of Dynamite

“Not if. When.”

The situation room is staffed on an ordinary day when a single missile is detected, launched by no one the United States can name and headed for Chicago. Kathryn Bigelow follows Captain Olivia Walker (Rebecca Ferguson), Jake Baerington (Gabriel Basso) and the President (Idris Elba) as each tries to find out who fired it. What passes between the people in the room is the question of who they can trust with a decision this size.