Genre: Drama, Thriller
Duration: 118 mins
Starring: Bimbo Akintola, Alastair MacKenzie, Bimbo Manuel, Charles Etubiebi. Danny Glover, Gideon Okeke, Tim Reid, Somkhele Idhalama
Director: Steve Gukas
What happens when the deadliest infectious disease known to man arrives in a megacity with over 21 million people? Based on the true story of men and women who risked their lives and made sacrifices to save Nigeria from the consequences of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
When Patrick Sawyer a Liberian-American collapses upon arrival at the Muritala Mohammed International airport, Lagos Nigeria. He is taken to First Consultant Hospital, where he is admitted with fever-like symptoms. Against his denials of contact with any Ebola victim in Liberia, the team at First Consultant led by Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh (Glover: Lethal Weapon) quickly deduce there is more to his case than malaria. Their vigilance leads to an early detection that Mr Sawyer has the Ebola Virus. A team led by Dr David Brett Major (MacKenzie: ITV’s The Loch) now have a race against time to contain a deadly disease from breaking out and infecting an entire city and beginning what could be the biggest deadly disease outbreak the world has ever known.