Iron-willed matriarch Bernarda Alba decrees eight years of mourning following her husband’s death, enacting a domestic lockdown that cuts her five daughters off from the world outside the walls of their home; but her daughters are women, not children, each hungers for her own place in the world. Their repression only fuels their desires for a life beyond.

　　根据美国历史上首批进入太空的宇航员的真实故事改编而成，他们是阿兰·舍帕德、戈斯·格瑞森、约翰·格婪尼、斯高特·卡本特、高登·库伯等，共七位英雄。影片详细地描绘了美国太空计划的诞生过程以及第一批航天员诞生的历史故事。