George Clooney stars in Steven Soderbergh's version of Stanislaw Lem's classic sci-fi novel. Chris Kelvin (Clooney) is a psychologist sent to investigate a series of mysterious occurrences aboard a distant space station. When he arrives he finds the two surviving crew members isolated from each other, & he learns that they have both received visits from loved ones who have been dead for many years. Soon Kelvin receives a visitor of his own
- a figure in the form of his dead wife Rheya (Natascha Mc Elhone)
- & the feelings of guilt & tenderness that she awakens in him make his attempts to penetrate the mystery even more difficult. Lem's novel was previously filmed in 1972 by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.