Hen (Saoirse Ronan) and Junior (Paul Mescal) live a very homespun traditional life on a remote farm that's been in Junior's family for years. It can't realistically be worked any more because of drought and Junior works in an enormous poultry factory while Hen waitresses.
One day, Terrence (Aaron Pierre) visits from OuterMore the supra-national corporation building the orbital colonies. He informs them that one of them has been selected by lottery for inclusion in the first wave of colony trials. They after all need them to be suitable for all kinds of people not just astronauts and scientists.
No good will come of this.
This is wistful sci-fi teasing out what it means to be human and loved rather than being about explosions and spaceships, y'know actual sci-fi.
Sadly much as it's beautiful to look at with a tiny but great cast we've been here before a lot and it brings nothing new to the table. It also has a clunky tone shift in the final half hour where while it doesn't drop to full-on exposition they just start saying the unsaid stuff.
The obvious comparison to make is that Black Mirror did this better in under half the time because frankly it did. As did other feature length things, I bet there's even a Twilight Zone covering the same ground. You do need to revisit these things from time to time and much as I'm glad this got made, because we need things like this just well, meh.
Kind of disappointing 6/10.