Dom Cobb is a thief who specialises in extraction, the art of stealing secrets from deep within a target’s subconscious during the dream state. Wanted for crimes he may not have committed, Cobb is offered a chance to have his record wiped clean if he can pull off the impossible: inception, planting an idea so deep inside a target’s mind that they believe it was their own. He assembles a team of specialists and descends through multiple layers of dreams within dreams, each level running on a different time scale, while the architecture of the subconscious fights back. Nolan’s film is a heist movie, a meditation on grief, and a puzzle box that rewards every rewatch.