Asteroid City, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the USA in the fifties. The Junior Stargazer programme gets a last-minute update when another out-of-town visitor arrives in town. From very far outside ...
Does the alien bring a message from the universe or even have answers to existential questions? Perhaps. What is certain is that Asteroid City is declared a restricted zone by the military as a precaution, and so widower Mitch Campbell and his four children are stuck in the remote nest. While his father-in-law looks after the grandchildren, America's knowledge of space is shaken and nuclear bombs are being tested in the background, Mitch befriends an actress. If only there wasn't this feeling that the alien is not the bearer of good news ...