ABSTRACT
Amman, Jordan, “Black September” 1970: the Jordanians are determined to dislodge the PLO from its city-center strongholds. Among the journalists caught in the crossfire is Sullivan (Bill Paterson). Sympathetic to the PLO cause, he is asked to identify a woman (Tilda Swinton) picked up without passport or papers. Sullivan pretends to know her, and takes her to his hotel, where she discloses that she is an extra-terrestrial, code-named Friendship, and sent from the galaxy of Procryon to make contact with advanced members of the human species. Due to a malfunction during atmospheric entry, she lost contact with her base, and landed in Amman, instead of at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
