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And from silence and darkness awakes - an all-moving, all-turning being. White, yellow and golden spindles in vigorous synchronised rotation. Twirling in shiny pirouettes in an old workshop full of nooks and crannies, they spin the big thread, sacrificing themselves. In the midst of the heat and noise of the historic machine souls a hunched old man is working, sometimes a cog, sometimes the conductor.
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Original Language
EN

Do we perceive things as they truly are? Can the assumption that we do leads to dangerous positions, as racism or xenophobia? This documentary reflects on issues like migration, border walls, and the restriction of human mobility from the perspective of people whose field of study could hardly be more detached from these issues: astronomers.

11-year-old Luis makes friends with three loveable little aliens, who crash their UFO into his house. In return for Luis' help in finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they save Luis from boarding school - and an exciting adventure follows.