When reconnaissance satellites pick up a radioactive heat signature in a remote tribal region of Afghanistan, CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes (Jonas Ball) is sent in to investigate the phenomenon. Amidst the bedlam of the war-torn region, the Agency fears that Al-Qaida has finally gotten their hands on a nuclear weapon. However, it seems that this threat may be coming from something much more powerful, and definitely not human. THE OBJECTIVE blurs genre lines in a smart look at post-9/11 paranoia as well as at the ancient cultural reasons why hundreds of years of conflict and numerous attempts at occupation have made war after war in Afghanistan end, or at least become suspended, in futility. From IFC Films. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 New York City Horror Festival, THE OBJECTIVE is "a very sweaty psychological thriller" – Scott Weinberg, CINEMATICAL
