World War III is minutes away. Two boyhood friends from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, supposedly have a plan to prevent it. One is now an American spy, and the other is Russian.

But the CIA views its agent as delusional. They even try killing him on several occasions by sending him on seemingly suicidal missions. Eventually, he is forced into a psych ward so that he can be deemed sane and tried for treason.

Meanwhile, the world tips towards the edge. As it does, the agent confesses that he developed software with his Brighton Beach buddy to prevent the war. The treating psychiatrist is convinced that the software is imaginary, and recommends more therapy.

A few minutes before the first missile is shot, the psychiatrist makes a shocking discovery. Does it show the Brighton boys are dangerous losers who made the global holocaust inevitable, or quiet winners that miraculously prevented it?