几个芝加哥大学附属医院高材生，在好奇心的驱使下，策划了一场探索死亡奥秘的疯狂实验。他们轮流躺在手术室里进入死亡状态，再由其他守护的同学将自己救活。这场惊险又刺激的死亡穿梭，在一个漆黑的深夜里一步步的开始了。　　第一个进行测试的纳尔逊（基弗·萨瑟兰 Kiefer Sutherland 饰）在“死”去之后，遇见了因他的侮辱而死去的男孩。死而复生后的纳尔逊，虽然各种感官都变得更加敏锐和灵敏，却陷入深深的梦魇之中；接受实验的第二个人是好色的乔（威廉·鲍德温 William Baldwin 饰），他见到了各种色情场面，并且遇见了曾虐待过的女孩；紧接着，戴维（凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰）也接受了实验，他则将死亡实验延迟到了两分钟；女学生蕾切尔（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）更是在死亡时间里，重温了父亲自杀的经过。在体验过死亡世界之后，那些挥之不去的往日记忆开始无孔不入的侵占他们的一切。

　　In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.

主要讲述了未来世界人与机械武器之间的爱恨情仇。

美国爆发xb疫情,科学家束手无策,历史上曾有人治愈过该病,无奈资料被毁,科学家们只得使用时间机器回到过去寻找,不料却遇到了1871芝加哥大火灾。。一部伤感的经典科幻片，正大剧场好像播出过

1971 年，一名遇难陆军少校之子被印度调查分析局发掘，在战前作为卧底安插在巴基斯坦。