Post-nuclear-war dramas centering on a small group of survivors now constitute an entire genre in science-fiction films. All of them, in some way or another, can be traced back to this seminal film from 1951 in which five people deal with the possibility they are the only human beings left alive on the planet.　　While most of the later movies exploited this possibility for B-movie thrills, Five adopts a quiet, contemplative tone which some may find dull but which thoughtful viewers are more likely to find, for want of a better word, haunting. There is something about this movie which gets under the skin and which lurks in the corners of the mind long after it's over.

2006年印尼日惹發生大地震，並將埋藏在地底、擁有兩公里長的頭骨化石暴露在人類的眼前，這項震驚世人的發現轟動了整個印尼，政府快速組成了研究小組以追蹤化石的起源，然而，政府官員以及科學家卻向公眾隱藏了關於該化石的秘密。直到某天印尼政府突然無預警關閉了研究小組進入化石區域的通道，一項駭人聽聞的恐懼陰霾即將朝人民襲來…