Ray Ashford has ventured beyond the endlessness of the cosmos as part of a team of space explorers. They are all on a mission to find a planet that would support human life after earth has been rendered useless for the job. While the premise in itself echoes several endeavors of the genre with similar preoccupations, the film does its bit to conjure uniqueness, and should be appreciated for the same. 
Despite the set-up of a remote corner of the universe and a lone warrior aboard a sterile, silent ship, the core motivations of the film remain simple and direct - love and the desire to build a home. It is precisely these sentiments that propel the narrative forward. 
The film marks a seminal and hopefully first of the many attempts along the path of finding his voice by the young filmmaker, Blake Simon. The storytelling exhibits potential and leaves the viewer with the promise of more.

Goldilocks | Short Film of the Day

Two masked people sit across a table. The ensuing conversation reveals them to be gods, perhaps Zeus and Hera, regretting a fate where they are allowed only a single night of union every hundred years. A mention of a brother who betrayed them invokes Hades for the viewer, as his hounds further conjure an image of Hell. The film strives to be a philosophical engagement with ideas of existence, humanity, creation of the world as well as the separation of the lovers. They ponder over the fate of humans and maybe even finally fulfilling their age-old desire of free will. Parallel to this is the horizon of expectation that the title of the film has established in the viewer's mind right from the beginning. The rest of the narrative simply serves to reveal whether or not it would come in the manner in which we expect it. Will the two gods part at the end of the night to again be separated for a century or would humankind be sacrificed, a set of people devolving into a world of chaos anyway without any help from the gods, so that the two can remain together? The question has already been set in motion by the film's opening visual, and it is only in its conclusion that the answer lies.

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