Description
Amid the high-stakes fever dream of the 1969 Space Race, Gloria Johnson is a brilliant mathematician relegated to the shadows at NASA. Despite her genius for calculating lunar trajectories, her contributions are hidden behind a facade of typing pools and systemic prejudice. That changes when she is partnered with Dr. Katrina Ivanova, a sharp-witted Soviet defector whose presence at the agency is as enigmatic as it is volatile.
For Katrina, the move to America was a bid for scientific liberation, but she quickly finds herself cornered. To protect her family back in Moscow, she is forced into a treacherous game of espionage, tasked with digging up dirt on Gloria’s involvement in the civil rights movement. What begins as a tense professional rivalry slowly transforms into an undeniable, electric pull. Between quiet interludes over steaming Russian tea and shared fascination for the stars, the women find in each other a solace neither expected.
As they labor to solve the equations that will propel Apollo 11 to the moon, their orbit grows dangerously close. Forced to choose between their hearts and their survival, Gloria and Katrina must decide if their love is worth the risk of total destruction. In a world of cold bureaucracy, this is a slow-burn romance where everything—career, freedom, and home—hangs in the balance.
