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"The Midnight Sky" opens with Augustine (George Clooney) in a sterile environment — the Barbeau observatory in the Arctic Circle. It is February 2049, three weeks after "the event," and he is alone, monitoring the spaceship Aether. The crew is returning home after a two-year mission to see if it the planet K23 "would be our future." (Things didn't turn out as they planned).
However, when Aether crewmember Sully (Felicity Jones) is unable to make contact with NASA, and the ship veers off course, Augustine decides he must trek across a frozen tundra to a weather station to reestablish contact because planet Earth is, well, as Augustine tells Sully, "We didn't take care of it while you were gone."