Can a renowned constitutional law professor regain faith in herself and in American Democracy to craft the “government of the future” for a space settlement after a police brutality incident destroys all trust in institutions?

Carrie Davenport, a renowned Black law professor in North Carolina, has the career opportunity of a lifetime to design a system of government from scratch for a billionaire's experimental space settlement. Carrie eagerly researches how to craft a suitable constitution for space. But when she is stopped by the police one night in a case of mistaken identity, the filmed encounter thrusts Carrie into the discourse on racial justice in the United States. Suddenly, American democracy doesn’t seem like a shining beacon to carry to Mars. Carrie must decide whether to speak up—against the police violence she endured, the tech-bro culture of Project Mars, and an even deeper underbelly of corruption behind the mission.