Plot
The film follows a group of people upon learning that a ballistic missile is headed towards Hawaii and that they all have 20 minutes to live. All the characters have different backgrounds – an atheist and a believer; a Japanese billionaire and a Native Hawaiian; a conservative Republican and a liberal Democrat; a white nationalist and a black militant.
All these people with different belief systems find themselves in the same situation, waiting for the outcome. As it is to be expected, they all deal with it differently and act according to their personalities, but as Chey said “they all come together in the end.” This is what makes the movie so intense.