“Tarkovsky’s speculative visions enfold the mysteries of death and rebirth, the lost paradise of childhood, the power of art to define identity, the menace of science as destructive vanity...”

— Richard Brody, New Yorker Magazine

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane, only to find himself succumbing to the same mysterious forces...