Set in the then-future year of 2006, Any Day Now (originally titled Vandaag of Morgen) depicts a radical inversion of the 20th-century geopolitical order. The world has fractured into three primary blocs, with the "Third World" nations having successfully seized control of the planet’s natural resources. This shift has left the United States and Europe in a state of economic desperation, forced to negotiate with their former colonies for basic survival. Earth is presented as a politically charged arena where the traditional Western powers have been humbled by their dependency on foreign energy and food supplies.

The narrative centers on a massive international people's congress convened to address a specific crisis in the Netherlands. Following a catastrophic industrial disaster in the Rijnmond region, the Dutch population is facing mass starvation. The central technological and societal dynamic is the cold, bureaucratic management of human lives as a trade commodity; the congress must vote on a proposal to export one million unemployed Dutch citizens to developing nations as manual labor in exchange for life-saving grain shipments. This vision suggests a future where national identity is secondary to survival-based logistics and resource-driven diplomacy.

Compared to the actual year 2006, the film’s predictions of a total Western collapse and labor-for-food exchanges did not materialize. However, it accurately anticipated the rising geopolitical influence of resource-rich developing nations and the use of energy exports as a primary tool of diplomatic leverage. While the film’s specific industrial catastrophe in Rijnmond was fictional, its focus on the fragility of global supply chains and the potential for environmental disasters to trigger mass migration reflects anxieties that remain highly relevant. Fewer than three analysis-quality sources in English exist for this film, so much of this interpretation relies on primary Dutch film archive data and the director's retrospective notes.