The movie opens with the Starship Avalon on autopilot
heading to the colony world of Homestead II The crew and the 5,000 passengers are
all in hibernation pods for the 120-year journey
It is 30 years into the journey, The ship travels thru a meteor storm
and power is diverted to the forward shields then the ship collides with a
large meteor and the power blinks red alert screens come on in the control area
then quickly go back to normal Something bad has happened
Jim Preston a mechanical engineer wakes up in his pod with a cheery computer voice
telling him that soon they will be arriving at Homestead II
He is told that it is normal to feel confused
and weak after being in hibernation The wristband on his arm is scanned
and the computer leads him to his cabin where he sleeps
The next day, he wakes up and tries to decide what to
wear when meeting fellow passenger then makes his way to a cafeteria,
where he is the only one He goes to an orientation session
about life as a colonist on Homestead but he is the only one there
The cheery computer generated instructor cannot understand his question,
about why no one else is there Jim goes to the Main Concourse
and gets no help from the information kiosk He finds an office where he can send a
message to the Homestead Company and he is warned that it will be expensive
He sends a message explaining he is the only one awake
and needs help, then finds out it will be fifteen years
before anyone on earth receives his message He is on his own
Jim finds manuals for all the ship equipment He studies the manual on the hibernation pods
but cannot find a way to get it started again once the person has woken up
He cannot get into the area where the crew pods are
to try and wake anyone for help and he cannot get into the command area
His wristband does not give him the proper clearance
Jim finds the robot bartender Arthur who he can talk to
but the robot is programmed to dispense bartender advice
like if you don't like where you are, change things
Jim is a general class passenger with a basic cabin
and he breaks into a suite with nicer amenities Jim becomes more desperately lonely
He goes to an area where passengers can put on a spacesuit
to go outside while safely tethered to the ship Jim contemplates suicide by opening
the airlock without a spacesuit but stops himself, and runs into the pod area
He trips near a pod with a lovely woman inside, Aurora
He studies her passenger profile she had recorded before the
ship set sail, and She is a journalist and is traveling to Homestead to have an adventure
and learn about why people choose to be a colonist He reads her stories and thinks she is perfect
He wrestles with himself about waking her up knowing that it will doom her to die on the ship
but he cannot stand the isolation after a year alone
so he manually makes her pod wake her up hiding before she can see him
The same cheery computer program wakes up Aurora and leads her to her cabin to sleep
Aurora wakes up the next day alone and wanders to the grand concourse
where she meets Jim He tells her the
truth about how long he has been awake but he doesn't tell her that he woke her up
He has asked Arthur the robot bartender not to tell Aurora what he has done, and Arthur agrees
Aurora and Jim talk daily, discuss what can be tried to fix the pods
she runs and begins to write her story She asks why Jim left earth
and he says he likes to make things and fix things and on earth, things get replaced
when they break and are not fixed He wants to live in a house he builds himself
Her plan was to travel to the colony spend a year there talking to colonists about,
why they left Earth then return to earth
After some time of getting to know each other Jim asks Aurora on a date, and she accepts
After they eat, he takes her to the spacesuit room and there are two suits and they both get dressed,
and go outside They are happy,
have their routine of exercise, watching the stars,
taking advantage of the ships entertainment and restaurant venues
It's Aurora's birthday and Jim plans a special surprise,
he made a ring for her Going in the bar, Aurora tells Arthur
that she and Jim have no secrets and Jim agrees Jim steps into the men's room
and Arthur tells Aurora what a good choice Jim made to pick her to wake up
Aurora is angry, furious, and tells Jim to stay away from her
While all of this is going on, the control room is more frequently
getting alerts of system failures Jim and Aurora have noticed small things
like the cleaning robots having system failures It's now two years since the meteor collision
One day Gus wakes up and appears on the concourse he is a deck crew chief and has woken up early
Hibernation Pods have never failed before and he explains that something major is wrong
His wristband gets them into the command center where they find that the ships
automatic diagnostics have failed and they need to check every deck manually
While he tests before they start this there is a major gravity failure
and Aurora almost drowns There have been cascading failures
and the computer can make a timeline, that shows the first failure was two years before
The area first affected was in the main engine area
but they will have to do a manual inspection to tell where
At this point, Gus collapses,
and Jim and Aurora take him to the infirmary and put him in the medical auto diagnostic scanner
There are multiple necroses all throughout his body
and death is imminent probably because of
the malfunctioning hibernation pod He puts on his uniform and prepares to die
and gives him and Aurora his wristband, so they can access the areas of the ship
which they need it to go to fix things In engineering,
Jim and Aurora find a hole made by a meteorite which goes thru some critical areas
and When they open one door, Aurora is almost sucked out
because of a hole thru the hull She blocks it with a tablet Jim pushes to her
the area pressurizes, and they then learn the fusion engine exhaust has to be manually vented
The manual override won't work, Jim has to get into a spacesuit
and go outside to fix it He ends up having to go into the
exhaust passage to open a flap but it won't stay open
he had to hold it so that the manual vent will work
Aurora argues with him over the radio but she pulls the lever
Jim is pushed out, his tether breaks, and there is a hole in his suit
and He tells Aurora goodbye She runs to get into a
spacesuit herself and goes to look for him and She retrieves Jim by grabbing his tether
but when they get inside he is unresponsive
She drags him to the infirmary, and the auto-doc says Jim is dead
Aurora uses Gus' wristband and his override code to get the machine to resuscitate Jim,
and it works He is alive, and she is overjoyed
Later things are back to normal on the ship
Jim works on the auto-doc, and tells Aurora he found that using the command override, he could
put her back in hibernation in the infirmary but he would be alone again
and Aurora chooses to stay awake with him Cut to about 88 years later
It's the end of the voyage and the captain and crew awake,
and come to the grand concourse to find there is a huge tree,
lots of trailing vines and vegetation
and a cabin Aurora's voice-over is reading her story to the passengers,
which they made a good life where they were