In 2009 a small but great event happens: the first Swiss Science Fiction production is created.

The director Ivan Engler, who is also the author of the screenplay and the producer, assisted by his colleague Ralph Etter, he makes a decidedly good film which, if it had been able to count on widespread distribution worldwide, could have achieved considerable success at the box office.

Unfortunately, the Swiss film company Atlantis Pictures Ltd did not have an adequate budget for marketing and distribution and therefore the film was shown in few theatres.

The story is definitely interesting and the SFX are acceptable for a European production: we are in 2267 and the Earth has become practically uninhabitable due to climate change and pollution.

The Earth's population has moved to various space stations orbiting the planet and also to more remote places.

Despite these "arks" are, for the moment, guaranteeing the survival of the human species, the level of liveability is decidedly poor: they are overcrowded and people are forced to live in very close contact with each other and in this way epidemics break out and spread very quickly causing thousands of victims in each station.

It is clear that this space station solution cannot last much longer and in fact explorers belonging to a multinational have discovered a planet, Rhea, which is practically the pristine copy of the Earth.

The objective is therefore, year after year, to transfer the population to the new home but to go to Rhea you need so much money that the vast majority of population will never be able to gain.

Dr. Portmann is one of those who dreams of reaching Rhea for another reason: to reunite with her sister and her grandchildren.

Portmann also has the problem of money and to this end she decides to embark, as a doctor, on a space ship (the Kassandra) that must go to Space Station n. 42, specifically four years of travel on the outward journey and the same number on the return journey; at the end of the mission she will have the money to buy the ticket to Rhea.

Portmann then embarks together with the rest of the crew, the Captain and 5 other men; in turn, one of them will remain awake and on duty for 8 months (the others will remain hibernated), dedicating themselves to the management of the ship and, possibly, to the resolution of technical problems and at the end of this period they will hibernate, not before having the colleague has been awakened for the handover.

Portmann's moment arrives, in fact we find ourselves at the end of the eight months when the doctor should start waking up her colleague but, suddenly, after the routine checks, she hears noises coming from the hold and when she goes there to check she discovers that one of the crewmen is already awake because he has the feeling that the safety of the ship may have been compromised.

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Together they decide to wake up the Captain to decide what to do but, unexpectedly, the Captain is found killed and therefore the two decide to wake everyone up...

It's not a banal film and you really notice the passion with which it was made; the interpretations certainly don't shine but the tension and suspense are well made.

The test can be considered passed without too many worries.