There are some more awkward quirky moments which follow. His father picks him up and takes him back to the house, where he announces it's time to take the pills. The boy begins to scream as one of the toxic dust devils blows in exposing him to the toxin. At the start of the third act the son who proclaims he isn't going to take the pill runs off, he finds a car by the side of the road with a family in it that have all taken the exit pill and are dead. Maybe the government and scientists are lying, maybe they are just mistaken. This uncertainty regarding the narrative's validity is shared by several other characters. One of the other couple's sons also doesn't want to take the pill because he wants to survive, and questions the government's narrative. We learn that one of the characters is pregnant and doesn't want to take the pill because she doesn't want to kill her baby. I sense that the writer wanted some of this to be funny but in my opinion really missed the mark.
The second act they all drink, dance, play games, reminisce and tell each other awkward and inappropriate secrets about their past. There is an interracial lesbian couple, an interracial heterosexual couple, and two white heterosexual couples with kids, kids who drop a lot of F-bombs.
This part of the movie was a little like a millennial version of the 1983 movie "The Big Chill." Which also had old college friends from the boomer generation gather for a weekend reunion. Old college friends gather at a country estate for one last Christmas party before the toxic clouds arrive, and they take their government-provided "exit pills" to avoid dying said horrible death. They really don't even try to touch on the science about what caused it, but it is said in the dialogue that humanity has polluted the world to the point that "the world spews it all back us." To avoid an agonizing death, the government is actively promoting that everyone should take the exit pill.
In the first act you find out that the end comes from an environmental disaster that has created a toxic cloud moving across the globe that kills people by liquifying their organs. Because according to the film, "they don't count." Ironically, as you'll later find out, this might mean the meek shall indeed inherit the Earth. Except for illegal aliens and the homeless. The basic premise is the government has announced that the world is ending, and they've handed out "exit pills" (suicide pills) to the population so that they don't needlessly suffer. It has some awkward quirky moments where the writer attempts humor, but misses the mark. This film never made me laugh, or even smile. This movie felt like another of Keira Knightley's films, "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World," except it was much less funny.