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The year is 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have become reality. Drones fill the burnt orange sky and paramilitary police patrol the ruined streets as survivors hide underground, trying to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this brilliant blend of visionary science fiction and speculative documentary prose, Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia (Emmy) takes us into a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present. Two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Ugly, My Own World) plays a survivor haunted by nightmarish visions of the past—a past that turns out to be our present, visualized with contemporary footage that connects today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big technology, inequality, and global climate change. The year 2073 is a pertinent, unwavering vision of a dystopian future that could become our own.