خلاصه داستان : این فیلم فاجعه زیر دریایی K-141 Kursk 2000 و سهل انگاری دولتی را به دنبال دارد. در حالی که ملوانان برای بقا می جنگند ، خانواده های آنها به شدت با موانع سیاسی و شانس غیرممکن برای نجات آنها مبارزه می کنند.

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.