April Burns (Katie Holmes) é a ovelha negra da família. Ela não se dá bem com a mãe, Joy (Patricia Clarkson), mas ainda assim oferece o apartamento que divide com seu namorado Bobby (Derek Luke) para abrigar a festa do Dia de Ação de Graças. Como se não bastasse a pressão causada por essa situação, as coisas começam a dar errado: a jovem descobre que o forno não está funcionando e pede ajuda aos vizinhos, com quem nunca fez questão de ser simpática. Enquanto isso no carro que leva a família para a casa de April, a conversa gira em torno do mesmo tema: os defeitos da moça.
In a time of misery and fear two enemies come together to prevent an apocalypse conspired by their leaders. 40 years of war between the Federated Republics and the New Territories Union has taken its toll. The cities are overcrowded, farming land is riddled with unexploded mines -- and still there is no hope of peace. In this hostile, decaying world of the future on thing remains constant for Lieutenant Leo Megaw; his love for his pregnant wife. Her access to classified information makes her an increasing liability for the government. When she's ambushed, Leo is forced into exile. As a border patrolman on the isolated outpost of Zone 39, ordered to kill anyone that tries to cross the border, he comes to understand that ultimate catastrophe forced upon his world by his government. The real enemy is not looming across the border but standing right behind him. Now he must reach across the border into enemy territory and form an alliance to save his world.
