The Inner Space

War, extreme poverty, climate change… Lis (36) believes she has the solution for all the world's problems: Phobos. According to her research, that mysterious Martian moon hides extraterrestrial surveillance equipment designed to monitor human activity on Earth. If her suspicions are confirmed, she wouldn't just prove that someone is out there; she'd reveal that someone expects something from us. And maybe then, like two siblings who fight but make peace when their parents are watching, some of us would strive to do the right thing. And we would discover that shaking hands doesn't cost that much. So, when a crowdfunding campaign is launched to finance the first Spanish probe to the red planet, Lis sympathizes with the cause and donates a generous sum of money. Her participation will give her the right to propose objectives for the mission, but it also leads to an argument with her husband, Arturo (38), who threatens to take their daughter, Nora (8), away from her unless she recovers the investment. In a tragic struggle, Arturo delivers a fatal push to Lis. Nine years later, Arturo (47) is released from prison on the same day the Mars mission campaign reaches its ambitious final fundraising goal. Nora (17) has not gotten over her past: she harbors deep resentment toward her father and intense longing for her mother, whose obsession with space she has made her own, and whose footsteps she is determined to follow. Once the cost of the interplanetary mission is covered, donors are invited to access a website and vote for their favorite space goal. The options do not include Phobos, so Nora records a video proposing the exploration of the Martian satellite. The same night it's published, Nora is abducted by a flying saucer. She does not remember the experience, but Emma (35), her psychologist, attributes her story to a hallucination, typical of her now clear case of paranoid psychosis. Then, Nora enters a psychotherapy center, where she is assigned to a peculiar support group. That's how she meets Biel (18), a reincarnated who says he remembers his past lives; Maica (23), an awakened who believes she is living in a simulated reality; and Bruno (25), an interdimensional traveler who claims he can move between parallel universes. What Nora doesn't know is that if she wants to remember what happened during the abduction, she must leave her world and open her mind to other realities—even if that means forgiving her father and letting go of her mother. Because their differing perspectives may not be incompatible. Maybe they're the different pieces of a puzzle, and only together do they make sense of the whole picture. And Phobos may not hide an extraterrestrial control center, but maybe it explains the true nature of the world we live in.