65-70 minutes. "Once there was this blazing star. It grew brighter and brighter until one day – the lights went out and it collapsed into a small, white, dwarf star. Her outside was scorching hot but inside she was cold – colder than an arctic night." - That is Miranda.
"Immerse yourself in the sky. The past present and future are all there." - Otto.
Does grief have a science? Twenty-one year-old Miranda dwells in the past. Any past – as long as the world is prior to her father’s death a few months ago. After spreading her father's ashes, Miranda finds herself lost in the North Pole with an ancestor from her past - the great physicist/arctic explorer Otto Schmidt. Through Otto, Miranda gleans information about the nature of the universe, and loss and ever-lasting presence. Miranda tells Otto stories about the stars. Otto tells Miranda about the make-up of the stars. What gives remembrance? Stories or the laws of the universe? During her (sometimes) heated debates with Otto about the origins of the universe, Miranda inches her way back into the world.