In the future...love is a dangerous game. What if the person you desired most was the one person you were forbidden to love? Oscar winner Tim Robins and Oscar nominee Samantha Morton "make a sexy and moving pair of desperadoes" (
Entertainment Weekly) in this "thought-provoking" (
USA Today) sci-fi thriller from the director of
24 Hour Party People In the near future, privileged classes live and work "inside" cities, while non-citizens scratch out a miserable existence "outside" in a vast desert. People cannot leave their designated zones without special visas known as "papeles." When fraudulent papeles surface, Seattle investigator William Geld (Robbins) travels to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit and meets Maria Gonzalez (Morton)...a women with whom he has a passionate affair but breaks one of society's harshest laws: Code 46.
