Yönetmen : Stephen Gaghan Oyuncular : Matt Damon, George Clooney, Amanda Peet, Mark Strong, William Hurt Senaryo : Stephen Gaghan Yapımcı : George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh

Film Washington'da kapalı kapılar arkasında yapılan anlaşmalardan, İran Körfezi'ndeki petrol yataklarında ter dökenlere kadar, herkesin zenginlik ve güç peşindeki yarışının insani sonuçlarını, birbiri içine geçen öykülerle anlatıyor. A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.