VCR Tapes and Cosmic Plague

In suburban 1986, a meteor showers a sleepy town with glittering dust that rewrites memory and spawns a slow, inexplicable infection. A burned-out news cameraman, a nurse grappling with spectrum-era fears, and a Soviet émigré radio astronomer splice VCR footage, cassette interviews and static-laced satellite feeds to trace the contagion's cosmic signature. As hospitals fill and whispers of contamination collide with Cold War secrecy, they must untangle whether the dust is a pathogen, a signal—or a sentient lie broadcast down through the stars.