Patty works aboard a spacecraft dedicated to terraforming a remote planet, driven by clandestine motives that lead her to smuggle a rudimentary cloning device onboard. This act of sabotage sparks the creation of a secret, degraded clone of herself, entangling her in conspiracies that jeopardize the mission’s survival. Her bond with the cloned duplicate deepens into a complex romantic and existential entanglement, culminating in their pact to embrace mutual demise rather than face separation. During a critical descent by parachute, the clone clings desperately to Patty, their bodies intertwined mid-air—a visceral mirror of their inescapably linked destinies. In a pivotal act, Patty offers a butterfly pendant connected to Lewis’s history to his mutated clone. The gesture awakens the clone’s buried memories of Kate, his lost love, briefly restoring his humanity and forging fragile communication between them. Patty’s choices weave a complex ethical tapestry, threading ruthless self-preservation with flashes of vulnerability. Her sabotage and cloning schemes interrogate themes of fractured identity and loyalty, while her eventual alignment with her clone marks a transformation from covert saboteur to tragically unified counterpart in their doomed resolution.