Subjectivity

The narrative follows a government effort to reach the stars within relativistic limits, sending successive crews that suffer psychological breakdown. A later mission staffs ten socially marginal volunteers and administers a potent synthesized hallucinogen to replace external travel with inner voyages. The plot examines how collective and individual consciousness unravels under isolation and chemically induced realities, depicting the practical procedures of the program alongside intimate, often disorienting scenes of hallucination. Themes include social engineering, the ethics of experimentation, and the instability of perception when external space is denied.