Mira (2022 film clip)

Russian science-fiction disaster film directed by Dmitry Kiselyov about family values and love for one's family and friends.

A father working on a space station has to save his 15-year-old daughter after a meteorite shower hits Earth, using only satellite phones and cameras.

15-year-old Valeria ‘Lera’ Arabova lives in Vladivostok with her mother Svetlana, stepfather Boris and 8-year-old half-brother Yegor. She suffers from pyrophobia after surviving a fire inside an elevator when she was younger, which led to her parents’ divorce. Her father, flight engineer Valery Arabov, member of space station Mira, uses satellite technology and artificial intelligence to monitor her, but both remain otherwise estranged.

Arabov’s team watches a meteor shower expected to appear above the Western Pacific and to be harmless, despite his colleague Igor Khripunov’s warnings on the possibility of changes in its size and trajectory, which occur at last minute, impacting the station as well as vast areas in Far East Russia, Korea, Japan, and Australasia. Lera witnesses the impact and narrowly escapes her building, running into her school friend Misha, when a blast separates them and causes her to be hit by a middle-aged couple in a van attempting to escape the destruction. They drive her to a hospital before crashing and abandoning the vehicle. As a nearby building collapses, Lera shelters inside a toy store, but is trapped by the debris.

Arabov regains consciousness to find that he is the sole survivor in the station, and assisted by Mira’s AI system, manages to restore the energy supply, locates Svetlana in a hospital and contacts Lera. Her cell phone is damaged but he connects to a baby monitor teddy bear next to her, and instructs her to grab it to remain in communication, while she is pulled out by a rescue team. He calls Svetlana, who is at the hospital with Boris hoping to find Yegor among his classmates, but Lera recalls having given Yegor her binoculars the night before, encouraging him to skip classes and watch the meteor shower from a nearby building, where she now heads to rescue him. Arabov scans the building, which Mira warns to be too unstable, but unable to deter Lera, he guides her inside to rescue Yegor, and guides them along a safe path by connecting to traffic lights and other devices.

Lera and Yegor reach the shore, where helicopters are ferrying survivors to a safe area, when an explosion on an oil vessel occurs. She begs a soldier to take her brother on board a helicopter, from which Misha gets off and gives up his seat for Yegor to be carried off. Arabov calls Misha’s phone and informs Lera that all rescue activities will stop as further explosions will happen shortly in another vessel, which might destroy half the city, and urges them to escape, but Lera berates him and throws Misha’s phone. Misha agrees to help her and both take a boat and board the vessel. In the station, Mira’s system urges Arabov to crawl into the escape pod as they will enter Earth’s atmosphere soon, but he refuses and disconnects the AI voice system to regain connection with Lera, whom he guides towards the fire system valve. A fire blast knocks Misha unconscious, causing Lera to have a breakdown; Arabov comforts her and instructs her to put on the fireproof gear and activate the valve, which she manages to do while the station catches fire upon entering the atmosphere, killing Arabov. Lera and Misha are rescued and taken to the hospital, where she reunites with her family.

Trivia:
The star Mira, mentioned in the film, is the real binary red giant/white dwarf star in the constellation Cetus.