The Antares Paradox Is Contact Meets 24 In a Single Room, and It's Incredible
Alexandra works for a small S.E.T.I. group in Spain. One night, she goes into work and finds everything gone wrong, as her equipment’s broken, there’s a huge storm outside, and her father is in the hospital with maybe only hours to live. So, of course, that’s when the thing happens she’s literally be waiting her whole life for: she begins to receive a mysterious signal from space.
That setup alone is intriguing, but writer/director Luis Tinoco gives Alex a ton of additional complications, such as a sister who is guilting her about her father. She’s also got a colleague who is quitting, a boss who’s sleeping during her discovery. And most crucially, there’s only about an hour left before she loses control of the radio telescope that’s receiving the signal.