一场突如其来的鼠疫在德国科隆降临。一时之间，街道、下水道、家里、垃圾堆，到处都堆满了老鼠。一例例被感染的病人相继死去。一批批的人被强硬隔离起来，恐惧与慌乱随着空气一起蔓延开来，整个城市被死神的阴影笼罩着…… 在德国的科隆，发生了出人意料的事情，中世纪的瘟疫——“黑死病”再次侵袭了这座城市。事发于一个流浪汉猝死街头，令人难以置信地显现了黑死病地症候。综合医疗调查组的马丁·布鲁格医生和疾病控制专家克莱蒙·林德斯尔在这座古城发现了可怕的一幕。大堆的死鼠堵塞了下水道，是它们引起瘟疫德吗？为了避免市民恐慌，政府没有接受专家的意见。只是一些要人也开始变得奄奄一息时，事情才明朗起来……
作为全国最年轻的计划生育诊所主任之一，艾比·约翰逊(Abby Johnson)参与了超过2.2万例堕胎，并为无数妇女提供生育选择方面的咨询。她对妇女选择权的热情促使她成为计划生育的代言人，为她深信不疑的事业而努力制定法律。直到有一天她看到了改变一切的东西。
Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie. They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks. Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.
