At the twilight of his career, Austrian astronomer Karl (Franz Schwartz) drifts between memory, science, and doubt. With his wife (filmmaker Leslie Thornton) in America and his work faltering under ecological upheaval, his gaze turns skyward in search of meaning. Through eclipses, conversations, and solitary landscapes, Jem Cohen frames a fragile silhouette against the stars — an enigmatic meditation on perception and the quiet beauty of looking.