Nightbreaker

Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, where he is awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. approaches him, claiming to have been a test subject during the 1950s and exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests in the Nevada desert, asking Brown for help in uncovering the truth. The film shifts to 1950s Nevada, where a young Alexander Brown works as a psychiatrist and is invited by the U.S. Army to observe soldiers who were routinely exposed to high levels of radiation. Along with a colleague, Brown interviews the soldiers, who display ignorance and indifference to the dangers they face. The movie alternates between scenes of the young Alexander Brown and the older version of himself, some thirty years after the nuclear tests. As a decorated psychiatrist, will Brown finally speak out about the atrocity he witnessed?