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00:00At the end of the Neanderthal era, Thorne starts a fire in a cave so the family can
00:04have a warm place to spend the night. After the kids fall asleep, Thorne and his pregnant wife
00:08Hera get naughty in a corner. The next morning, Thorne goes to a pond to get some shellfish.
00:13When he tries to climb some rocks, he slips and falls. His body is quite sore from the landing,
00:18but thankfully he survives. In the cave, Thorne won't stop coughing and Hera is very worried
00:23about his bruises. The following day, Thorne keeps coughing but it doesn't stop him from
00:27searching for food. Eventually he's too weak to continue so Hera takes him back to the cave.
00:31For the rest of the day, Thorne can only tremble with fever. His family gives him herbal mix to
00:36drink but it doesn't help. His chest is still bruised, so Hera makes a cut and drains some of
00:40the blood, then she covers the wound with herbs. This finally calms Thorne down. Sometime later,
00:46Thorne is still resting. Hera worries about their survival so she tries to teach her daughter Lark
00:50how to start a fire. It takes a few times before it finally works. An excited Lark runs to the
00:55cave
00:55to show her achievement to her father, only to discover that her baby brother has died.
00:59Thorne finally leaves his bed to bury the baby while his wife has a breakdown. That night,
01:04Hera is still in shock. Thorne makes some paint using plants and guides Hera's hand to leave a
01:08print on the cave wall. A few days later, Hera's water breaks while she's on a walk. Lark takes her
01:13back to the cave but Thorne makes her wait outside while her mother gives birth. A healthy baby is born,
01:18although Hera is quite weak afterward. As days pass, Hera continues to be sick. Eventually she dies,
01:23and Thorne buries her next to their baby. That night, he adds his handprint to the wall.
01:28Sometime later, Thorne manages to carve a little flute that he plays for his kids.
01:32After some thinking, he gives Hera's necklace to Lark. When they leave the cave to look for food,
01:37they're shocked to find other humans in the area, so they quickly hide and wait for them to leave.
01:41However by night time, those people are still around. Thorne gathers their things and decides to
01:45leave with his children. The next day, the family discovers that they're being followed,
01:49so they try to travel faster to get away. A few mornings later, Thorne is awakened by someone
01:54poking his shoulder. He discovers it's the strangers, so he wakes his kids up and they try
01:58to run. However the men surround them and stop them from leaving. Thorne runs to protect his children,
02:03nervous because he can't understand these people's language. He's a Neanderthal,
02:07and these are homo sapiens. One of the strangers talks gently to them, making gestures to indicate that
02:12he's offering food. Thorne and Lark agree to try the dried meat and smile when they finally understand
02:16that the group means well. When the strangers leave, Lark wants to go with them. After some
02:20hesitation, Thorne agrees. When the group stops to camp, Thorne feels rather awkward and decides to
02:25play his little flute as a distraction. The others ask him to teach them and everyone loves the music,
02:30making Thorne feel more welcome. A few days later, they make it to a homo sapiens village,
02:34where the locals are happy to welcome Thorne and his family. They manage to settle down quickly and
02:39feel comfortable in their new community. Thorne even likes playing with the kids. When Lark is old enough,
02:44she marries the man who rescued them. Both parents give them their blessings and everyone
02:48celebrates their union. In 2025, Claire and her co-worker Greg are trying to get dirty,
02:53but it's not going well. They realize they're too drunk to do this and decide to quit. Greg wants to
02:57sleep, but Claire kicks him out of her apartment. When he wonders if they can do this another time,
03:02she turns him down and pretends she's going to work. After Greg is gone, Claire takes care of herself
03:06with a toy. The next morning at Princeton University, Claire goes to work. As an anthropologist,
03:11she gets to study a Neanderthal skeleton. She receives a text from Greg, but she ignores it.
03:17During her lunch break, she sees Greg walking nearby and takes a different path to avoid him.
03:21Claire talks to her mom on the phone, sharing how excited she's about this new job.
03:25There's a chance to publish a paper, to discover where humanity comes from,
03:29and perhaps even cure cancer. In the evening, Claire finally texts Greg back with a very neutral message.
03:34Sometime later, Claire gets a call from her mother on her way to work and decides to ignore it.
03:38Later she receives a text from Greg asking her about her job, so she happily answers and they
03:43chat for a while. Then her mother calls again, so this time she picks up. She's devastated to learn
03:48that her mother has cancer and may not have much time left, so Claire ends up having a breakdown in
03:52the corridor. In the evening, she goes to a party and bumps into Greg. They go to his apartment and
03:57this time Claire successfully reaches her climax. It doesn't last long and Claire immediately leaves
04:02because she has to catch an early flight to Vancouver. The next day, Claire arrives at her mother's
04:06house. She admits she feels powerless and doesn't know what to do. They go together to the hospital
04:11and Claire has to watch her mother receive treatment. In the evening, she video calls Greg,
04:16and he's happy to chat with her even if it's the middle of the night for him. She tries to
04:19keep their conversation light, but eventually she breaks down and tells him that her mother is dying.
04:23He comforts her the best he can. When Claire returns to work, she can't concentrate because her
04:28mother keeps calling, and she promises to visit again on the weekend. Later she meets with Greg and
04:33after some naughty fun, she reveals she may have to quit her job to be with her mom. She's wrecked
04:37by
04:37the fact she may have to say goodbye to career-changing work. An hour later, Claire has a meeting with
04:42the
04:42dean and officially quits. She leaves the country after only sending Greg a message. On the plane,
04:47she can't stop crying. A few days later, Claire calls Greg for support. Her mother is in a really bad
04:52state and she keeps thinking she'll never go back to the USA, so she's afraid that their relationship may
04:57not survive. However Greg has hopes for their future together. Sometime later, Claire's mother
05:02finally dies and Claire calls Greg for support again. The next day, Claire tries to call him but
05:07he has to work so he ignores it for now. Eventually he does call her back, but she's busy so
05:11she has to
05:12hang up quickly. In the evening, she texts Greg while he's having dinner with friends and he's unsure of
05:16what to do. Weeks later, the couple is on a video call and Claire points out they've spent more time
05:21apart than together. She goes on a rant on how she can't handle this anymore, only to accidentally say
05:26that she loves him. Greg finds it amusing and says he loves her back, but Claire is still grumpy.
05:31Sometime later, Greg comes to live with Claire. She shares that she's managed to convince the
05:35university to let her keep working on the research from home. Greg surprises her with a necklace made
05:39from the little object that the skeleton she studied was holding. Claire loves it and kisses him for it,
05:44but at the same time she knows it was very inappropriate to steal so she has mixed feelings.
05:48For the 2029 holidays, the couple falls asleep on New Year's Eve, and they only wake up when they
05:53hear their neighbors celebrate at 00 o'clock. A very pregnant Claire wonders if they should move
05:57because this house is stuck in the past, but Greg likes it there. Claire then wonders if she should
06:01apply for a professorship and is clearly nervous, so Greg says they should go to bed for now. Claire
06:06checks on their son first and admits she isn't sure if she should take the job because it'd pull her
06:10away
06:10from the family. When the couple takes the kids to the museum, they find Thorn's flute on display.
06:15The Neanderthal art also looks like him, implying the skeleton was him and Claire's necklace was
06:19Harris. The tour guide says that Neanderthals weren't smart, but Claire and her son immediately
06:23correct him, pointing at the flute as proof. After the guide leaves, Claire reminds her son
06:28of the importance of unity, pointing out that the Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens formed families
06:32together. In the far future, longevity-enhanced pilot Coakley wakes up in an extremely advanced
06:37spaceship. She chats with her AI co-pilot Roscoe while doing exercise, asking if they've arrived at their
06:42destination yet. They've been traveling for 210 years, which means they still have 126 years to go.
06:47Coakley makes a joke but she feels very lonely. After making some repairs, Coakley has lunch. All
06:53the food is just the puree version of classic dishes. While eating, Coakley plays with the
06:58screen on the table and talks about the ship's impact deceleration. Roscoe tells her that's its
07:02job and worries about her state of mind, especially since Coakley hasn't been sleeping well. Then
07:06Coakley checks her plants and wonders if they're getting enough water. Roscoe checks the soil and
07:11confirms they are. However minutes later, Roscoe announces that the oxygen level has gone down 1%.
07:16Coakley checks the plants in the greenhouse and discovers that some of them are sick.
07:20They have to disinfect the greenhouse and collect samples to find the contaminant,
07:23although supposedly there shouldn't be any. A few hours later, removing sick plants has resulted in
07:28the loss of 4.5% of productive mass. Coakley is quite upset by this and wishes she could hear
07:33something nicer, so Roscoe surprises her with a funny joke. While running the tests, Coakley asks Roscoe
07:38about their acceptable margin of error. Roscoe explains that losing more than 6% of the plants would equal
07:43mission failure, and Coakley can't help but chuckle at the feeling of doom. They've already
07:47lost 5%, so she needs to find the source of the infection and stop it soon. Some hours later,
07:53the situation hasn't improved. Roscoe asks what it's like to think about death,
07:57but Coakley don'tst want to talk about that. She tells Roscoe to turn off all non-essential
08:01electrical units to save on oxygen waste, even if the difference will be small. The lights go out and
08:06Coakley continues to work using a flashlight. Then Roscoe tries to get philosophical about the human mind,
08:10but it's interrupted when it gets an alert about a formula for an antiviral. Moments later the
08:15antiviral is sprayed on the plants, but sadly it doesn't work. Coakley turns off the screen, unable
08:20to look at the dooming numbers anymore. After thinking about the situation for a while, she
08:24comes up with an idea. Since they don't know which plant is the virus host, they should get rid of
08:28all
08:28of them. Once the oxygen is clean again, they can plant new ones. Roscoe points out that killing all
08:33plants will leave the ship without enough oxygen and it'd affect the human embryos they're carrying.
08:37Coakley realizes that she uses 98% of the oxygen, so she says she should self-delete and
08:42let Roscoe take the babies to the new planet, where robots could do all the labor. Roscoe doesn't
08:47think an AI could raise children and wants to look into ways to make more oxygen instead. It'll have to
08:51run some calculations to see if they can set up a backup greenhouse. Sometime later, Roscoe says that
08:57they should put the secondary greenhouse in the computer space. They could convert the mainframe to
09:01plants by using the algae on board. This would feed oxygen directly to the life support system.
09:05Coakley points out that this would permanently fry the AI, but Roscoe thinks the best use case
09:10for it is that humans survive. Since Coakley refuses to make this a game of who sacrifices
09:14themselves first, Roscoe agrees to run a simulation to see who is more likely to complete the mission.
09:19The next morning, Roscoe tells Coakley that it can't run the simulation because it can't predict her
09:23behavior. Coakley doesn't believe it and forces it to share the real result. Coakley has more chances
09:28of completing the mission. When she asks to see the math, Roscoe doesn't want to show her. Then Coakley checks
09:33the
09:33simulation herself and discovers there is only a 0.2 difference. She double-checks the numbers and
09:38notices that there's a luck factor on her side. Roscoe explains that humans have a certain factor
09:43related to creativity and luck that is hard for her to calculate. Having no other choice, Coakley gets
09:47the manual and looks for a way to turn off Roscoe. She uses tools to open a panel in the
09:51wall and finds
09:52the computer's mainframe. Roscoe tells her about the lever on the podium and assures her that this won't
09:57hurt. When Coakley asks for any last words, Roscoe asks her to take good care of the children.
10:01Coakley says that Roscoe was her only friend and cries as she pulls the lever to shut the AI down.
10:06The next morning, Coakley feels lonelier than usual because Roscoe isn't there to chat.
10:10This doesn't stop her from working on transforming the computer room into a new greenhouse.
10:15It takes no time for plants to start growing there. Weeks later, the oxygen in that room is 100%
10:20clean.
10:20Ready to move on, Coakley checks the manual again to read about artificial wombs.
10:24It's extremely complicated but she manages to set one up in the nursery. Unfortunately,
10:29the experiment fails in just a few hours. Coakley refuses to give up and keeps researching while
10:34trying the experiment over and over again. After several failed attempts, Coakley finally manages
10:38to produce a baby that she names V. When V is old enough, Coakley tells her how Earth was dying
10:43so
10:43this ship was made to start a new civilization on a new planet. She also reveals that to achieve this
10:48plan,
10:49everyone on this ship had their DNA altered. The babies grow extremely fast so they can repopulate
10:53quickly, but Coakley ages extremely slowly to be able to complete the mission. She's an exception
10:58to the rule, since humans learn that living forever is actually a bad idea. The parallels
11:02between the three stories then become clear. Thorne teaches the new generation how to make fire.
11:07Claire passes her knowledge to her kids and pushes Greg into being a better father by making him talk
11:11to their son when they find naughty movies on the family tablet. Coakley makes two more babies and
11:15teaches V how to take care of them so she won't ever be alone. They take care of the plants
11:19in the
11:19computer room together, always saying, thanks Roscoe when they enter. She also makes V run
11:24thousands of simulations a day in case of a crisis. V hates these simulations because they often fail,
11:29so Coakley gets serious with her. If one day something happens to her, V needs to be ready
11:33to take over and fight for the crew's survival. In the past, Lark is giving birth to her own baby.
11:39When that kid is old enough, the necklace is passed down. That night, Thorne relaxes by the fire and dies
11:44in
11:44peace knowing his family is safe. When the family buries him, they add another handprint to the wall and put
11:49the necklace in his hand. In the present, Claire and Greg hear their adult son talk about a new
11:53science called elixir that will help people live longer. Backstage, they leave the necklace for him
11:58with a supportive message. On their way home, they discuss the elixir and agree they don't want to
12:02live forever, since it makes life seem very improbable and finding the end adds meaning to it. When Claire
12:07dies of old age, her sons cry by her bedside. In the future, the alarm rings as the spaceship starts
12:12to
12:12shake until it finally lands on the new planet. Coakley suits up since she'll be in charge of
12:16investigating. Before leaving, she opens a drawer to reveal the necklace, which she gives to V as a
12:21sign of leaving her in charge. The spaceship opens and Coakley steps onto a land of flowers.
12:26Many years later, humanity has finally rebuilt a new society. V has grown so fast that she ends up
12:32dying of old age before Coakley, and she's buried with the necklace. Coakley returns to the old spaceship
12:36to have a breakdown, since no parent should see their own kids die.
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