
Asteroid City, 1955. At a site in the Nevada desert, renowned for its crater after the impact of a giant asteroid, the fates of a war reporter in mourning for his wife, an actress he knows exists only in the gaze of others, a melancholic grandfather who tries to ‘reach’ his granddaughters, a scientist overwhelmed by events and a varied humanity lost in too large a space. During a convention of budding young scientists (the Junior Stargazer), who converged on the tourist town to present their inventions, an extraterrestrial ‘falls’ from the sky. The United States government, alarmed by the alien presence, places all those present in quarantine...
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