In the year 2075, a ten-year-old girl named Iris discovers a mysterious boy named Arco who has crash-landed in the forest wearing a strange rainbow suit. Arco reveals he is a time traveler from a distant, utopian future who became stranded after his device malfunctioned. With the help of Iris and her robot companion Mikki, Arco must navigate a world on the brink of ecological collapse and evade those who wish to capture him, all while racing to repair his suit and return to his own timeline before the window closes forever.
Information |
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Language |
English, French |
Country |
United States France |
Premiere date |
November 14, 2025 |
Running time |
82 minutes |
Genre |
Animation Adventure Sci-Fi Fantasy |
Budget |
$10,500,000 |
Box Office |
$4,000,000 |
Crew |
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Directed by |
Ugo Bienvenu |
Produced by |
Natalie Portman Félix de Givry Sophie Mas |
Written by |
Ugo Bienvenu Félix de Givry |
Music by |
Arnaud Toulon |
Edited by |
Nathan Jacquard |
Production Co. |
Remembers MountainA |
Distributed by |
NEON |
Official Trailer
The Plot
The Year 2932
The film opens in the distant future of 2932, where residential architecture has evolved into homes perched atop towering pillars that pierce the sky. A young boy named Arco watches with wide-eyed wonder as his parents and older sister return to their dwelling. They descend from the heavens wearing rainbow flight suits, advanced technology that leaves chromatic trails in the sky and possesses the extraordinary capability to travel through time. Fueled by curiosity and a desire to see prehistoric dinosaurs, Arco pleads to use the suits. However, his parents strictly forbid it, enforcing the law that he must be twelve years old before he can operate such powerful machinery.
A Leap Through Time
Under the cover of darkness, Arco sneaks out and appropriates his sister’s flight suit. Unaccustomed to the mechanics, he initially plummets from the high-altitude porch toward the ground far below. Eventually, he stabilizes, getting the hang of the controls and soaring through the air just as a storm erupts. The chaotic weather creates a specific anomaly: the storm clouds mix with sunlight, which reflects off the suit's central diamond. This specific interaction of light is the catalyst for the suit's temporal capabilities. Arco flies with such velocity that he inadvertently shatters the time barrier, hurtling away from his own era.
Life in 2075
Nearly a millennium in the past, in the year 2075, a girl named Iris navigates a lonely existence caring for her baby brother, Peter. Their parents are perpetually absent due to demanding work schedules, leaving the children under the supervision of Mikki, a sophisticated domestic robot. Despite Mikki's presence and care, Iris feels a profound sense of isolation. Her only peer connection is Clifford, a schoolmate who harbors a secret crush on her.
The Crash and the Pursuit
Iris witnesses a streak of rainbow light cutting across the sky and tracks it to the nearby woods, where she discovers Arco dazed from a crash landing. As she helps him to his feet, three eccentric brothers—Dougie, Stewie, and Frankie—spy on the encounter from a distance. The brothers have been obsessed with proving the existence of time travel since witnessing a similar rainbow flight suit twenty years prior, an event no one else believed. While the children manage to slip away, the brothers scour the crash site and recover the crucial diamond that dislodged from Arco’s suit upon impact.
Anomalies and Revelations
Iris brings Arco to her home to treat a head injury and repair a tear in his futuristic suit. When Mikki attempts to scan Arco to identify him, the robot’s database fails to comprehend the boy's future origin, causing Mikki to crash and shut down. Maintenance droids are swiftly summoned to the house to reset the system. Though hesitant at first, Arco confides in Iris, revealing his origin and his desperate need to return to the sky. Simultaneously, back in 2932, Arco’s family discovers his absence and initiates a frantic search across the timeline to find him.
The Flight Experiment
A bond forms between the two children as Arco shares the wonders of his time, demonstrating an uncanny ability to communicate with birds. Iris, saddened by the prospect of his departure, assists him in recreating the specific meteorological conditions of his arrival: rain amidst sunshine. Using garden sprinklers to mimic the storm, Arco manages to achieve lift, but without the missing diamond, the teleportation function fails. Unknown to them, the brothers continue to stalk the pair, seeking definitive proof of the suit’s power.
Fire and Reconciliation
Frustrated by her parents' disbelief when she calls them for help, Iris takes charge as a raging forest fire threatens the town, a disaster that would destroy Arco's chance of returning home. She flees with Peter and Arco, pursued by both the spreading inferno and the relentless brothers, with Clifford tagging along. They seek refuge in a factory populated by bots similar to Mikki. Clifford cleverly triggers the bots to distract the pursuers.
Cornered, the brothers reveal they are not villains; they simply wanted validation for what they saw decades ago. In a gesture of good faith, they return the diamond to Arco. As the fire engulfs the area, the town's houses deploy protective bubble shields. Mikki, despite sustaining heavy damage, heroically recovers Arco, Iris, and Peter, shepherding them to the safety of a secluded cave.
The Sacrifice
Iris awakens to find the cave walls covered in drawings Mikki created during the night, depicting her, Arco, and Peter together. The robot, succumbing to the severe fire damage, shuts down permanently. Arco’s suit is also discovered to be charred and unusable. Taking the lead, Arco utilizes his ability to communicate with nature, following an owl that guides the children out of the cave and into the open.
A Bittersweet Reunion
Emerging outside, the children witness three rainbows descending from the heavens. Arco’s family lands, but the reunion is heartbreaking; his parents have aged into elderly figures, and his sister is now a grown woman. They explain that they spent decades scouring the timeline for him, but it wasn’t until they saw the historical record of Mikki’s cave drawings that they were able to pinpoint his exact location and time. Arco shares a tender goodbye with Iris, who kisses him on the cheek, before rejoining his aged family to fly back to 2932.
Epilogue
In the years that follow, a photo collage reveals how Iris’s life transformed. Her parents returned home to become a constant presence in her and Peter's lives, realizing the importance of family time. They maintained a lasting friendship with Clifford and the three brothers. Iris eventually graduates college, her artistic portfolio filled with sketches of the futuristic pillar houses Arco described to her. The story concludes with a final glimpse of a rainbow arching over Iris’s home, a lasting symbol of the connection across time.
Top Cast
- Will Ferrell as Voice
- America Ferrera as Voice
- Flea as Voice
- Natalie Portman as Voice
- Mark Ruffalo as Voice
- Andy Samberg as Voice
- Juliano Krue Valdi as Arco (Voice)
- Margot Ringard Oldra as Iris (Voice)
- Alma Jodorowsky as Mikki (Voice)
- Swann Arlaud as Voice
