Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven-year-old daughter. Sarah feels guilty about not being able to spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
After directing the short films Kitchen (2004), which competed in the Cannes Festival’s short film section, Magic Paris (2006) and Piña Colada (2009), in 2012 Alice Winocour (Paris, 1976) tackled her first feature film, Augustine, presented in the Semaine de la Critique at Cannes and nominated for two César awards in France. She went on to direct the thriller Maryland (2015), with which she returned to Cannes, this time to the Un Certain Regard section. Proxima is her third feature film.