Moin Hussain’s highly anticipated feature debut blends realist drama with a playful suggestion of otherworldly science-fiction.

Adam (Faraz Ayub) lives a lonely and isolated life, working night shifts at a burger joint in a motorway service station. Upon hearing of his estranged father’s death, he seeks information about a man he barely knew, and soon begins to wonder if his late parent was actually from another planet. And if he was, what does that make Adam?

Despite suggestions of far-away galaxies, Hussain’s quietly unconventional character study (shot on gorgeous 35mm) is a down-to-earth, deeply human tale of alienation, identity and belonging in modern Britain.

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