Every traveling city dweller knows that feeling—when
you first hit country and the sky fills with a countless number of visible
stars. After moving to New York City from rural Maine, the filmmaker asked a
simple question. “Do we need the stars?” From Brooklyn to Mauna Kea, to Paris,
killer asteroids, hatching turtles and
injured birds in the city streets, serve to unravel the implications of
a globe glittering with lights.