Asteroid City, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the USA in the fifties. The Junior Stargazer program gets a short-term update when another visitor from outside comes to town. From very far outside ... Does the alien bring a message from the universe or does it even have answers to existential questions? Maybe. What is certain is that Asteroid City is declared an exclusion zone by the military as a precaution, and so widower Augie Steenbeck and his four children are stuck in the remote nest. While his father-in-law takes care of the grandchildren, America's knowledge of space begins to falter and atomic bombs are tested in the background, Augie befriends an actress. If only it weren't for this feeling that the alien is not a bearer of good news ... New