Healthcare workers, government officials and ordinary people are in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure. Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: Scott Z. Burns Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law Beth Emhoff died of the flu or other infection shortly after returning from a business trip to Hong Kong. His little son will die later that day. However, his wife, Mitch, is similar in terms of immunity. This is how the deadly infection begins to spread. It takes several days for doctors and administrators at Centers for Disease Control to understand the extent or severity of this new infection. They must first identify the type of virus in question and then find a way to fight it, a process that is likely to take several months. As the plague spreads to millions of people around the world, the law and order will start to worry when people panic.