Susan Sarandon plays Helen Sterling, a veteran nurse, who will stop at nothing to get her kidnapped adult son back in the first trailer for Viper Club. The film is intertwined with politics and the frantic feeling of losing a child along with a feeling of being helpless. Sarandon has said that part of the movie is about letting kids do, "what they need to do even if it is risky." Sarandon's son in the movie is a war correspondent on foreign assignment, who is taken hostage by a terrorist organization in the Middle East.

In the trailer for Viper Club, Susan Sarandon isn't allowed to talk about what happened to her son Andy, as advised by the FBI and the United States government, who aren't offering to help her either. She later discovers a secret underground community of journalists, advocates, colleagues of Andy's, and philanthropists who offer her help...