PROJECT HAIL MARY is the story of a science teacher all alone in a spaceship. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up from a coma and has no memory of where he is. Soon, he realizes that he's on an interstellar spacecraft, light-years from Earth. Grace also learns that he's the... sole survivor and that his other two mates are dead. Slowly, Grace remembers that he is a science teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle School. The Earth is in danger as the Sun is dimming, coinciding with the formation of an infrared line from the Sun to Venus called the Petrova line. The dimming is caused by a microorganism known as Astrophage and it'll cool the Earth's surface significantly. This can lead to major issues like widespread death, shortage of food and even extinction. A government agent, Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller), is impressed with Grace's work and is recruited to study Astrophage. He joins several other scientists of the world who have come together to find a solution to the problem. They come to the conclusion that Astrophage has infected other stars within our solar neighborhood. Hence, the only solution is to send a crew on a suicide mission to Tau Ceti, the star that has resisted the infection. How Grace becomes a part of this suicide mission and how his life changes when he comes across an alien spacecraft form the rest of the film.
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