silkwood be a movie that have to deal with the reality of situation that be still consider problem today . karen silkwood work a a plutonium factory and when the union be almost gotten rid of karen and some other people get together to fight to keep the union . so someone be start to expose karen to the chemical and and she be internally as well a externally expose . there be a plot to killer so she do not tell the union what the real health condition be like . so she be suppose to go pick up a new york time reporter and she never make it to the airport . her car be find in a ditch and they claim it a one person accident . they still have not find who plot to kill her or who really do kill her . it will be a mystery until some one want to come forward and tell the truth about what really happen .