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In the center of a desert 'somewhere south of nowhere', to a forlorn house manufactured from metal and clapboard, a secret war adviser has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a gathering with government war planners. They asked him to conceptualize their efforts - to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. For just two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. He was to map the reality these men were looking to create. 'Bulk and swagger', he called it. At the end of his service, Elster retreats to the desert, where he's joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience. Jim Finley wants to make a one-take film, Elster its single character - 'Just a guy against a wall.' The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Finley makes the case for his film. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits - an 'otherworldly' woman from New York - who dramatically alters the dynamic of the storyline. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. What is left is loss, fierce and incomprehensible. "Point Omega" is a deeply unnerving and brilliant work from one of the greatest living writers.
