The astrophysicist Jakub Procházka is assigned by the Czech Republic for a space mission. He has to analyze a large dust cloud around Venus. One day before his departure, Jakub, assailed by the media, prefers to stay alone. Alone in space, he thinks about his whole life: his father’s links with the communist party and the Velvet Revolution, the accidental death of his parents, his childhood with his grandparents and then his meeting with his wife, who left him.