Pu-239
His family's future depends on one unstable element.
Directed by Scott Z. Burns
Produced by Plutonium Production Limited, Beacon Pictures
A grim, morally complex drama about a dying man's desperate gamble to secure his family's survival, shadowed by radiation sickness and criminal entanglement.
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.
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