Synopsis:
Year 1915. A British expedition, led by the legendary explorer Edward Shale, embarks on a risky mission: to cross the frozen continent of the South Pole, between the Ross and Weddell Seas. With their impressive and robust vessel, the crew faces an unforgiving climate and glaciers that seem to have a life of their own. Just when success seems within reach, the ship is caught between two giant ice shelves. The crew, now at the mercy of brutal nature, watches as the ice squeezes their ship until it disappears into the depths, taking many of its secrets with it.
Part One: Mysteries in the ice
The crew is forced to abandon ship. But what seemed like a disastrous retreat begins to turn strange: as they try to get away from the site, some members claim to hear a distant humming sound, like an echo of technology. The polar night is strangely illuminated by green glows under the ice. Shale decides to investigate, believing there may be a cavern beneath the surface that could serve as a shelter.
Exploring, they discover a series of natural ice tunnels, some with crystalline structures that reflect and amplify light. However, the deeper they go, the more puzzling the place becomes. They find signs of ancient expeditions and unknown symbols etched into the ice, signs that they are not the first to reach these lands.
Part Two: The ship resurfaces
While waiting to be rescued, something inexplicable happens: the ice that enveloped the ship begins to crack and the ship resurfaces from the depths. But it is not the same ship they lost. An invisible force seems to surround it and strange blue lights emanate from its hull. The crew, filled with curiosity and fear, decide to climb aboard the resurfaced ship, only to discover that it has been transformed.
Inside the ship, the clocks are stopped and strange symbols cover the walls. The crew’s personal belongings they had left behind appear intact, but covered by a layer of frost that emits a faint glow. Even more disturbing, the engines appear to have power, though they are covered with an unknown, almost living substance.
Part Three: Contact
Exploring the ship, Shale and his crew find a communications room that did not exist before. The old devices now have an additional panel, which displays a series of moving symbols and patterns. When activated, a deep, ancient voice communicates with them, revealing that the ship has been tapped by an extraterrestrial intelligence of pure energy, which has inhabited the icy depths of the planet for millennia. This entity observes humans and studies their behavior, and the intervention on their ship is an attempt to understand their world.
The crew, caught between the hostility of the cold and the curiosity of the entity, must make a decision: escape and let the ship return to the depths or ally themselves with this ancient intelligence in search of knowledge. Edward Shale, ever the explorer, chooses to communicate with the entity, negotiating the release of his crew in exchange for information about humanity and its relentless quest to discover the unknown.
Part Four: The Return and the Enduring Mystery
The intelligence agrees, but at a price: the ship and a part of each crewmember’s memory will remain in the ice, as an offering to this millenary being. Upon surfacing, the crew, disoriented and with vague memories of their experience, is finally rescued. However, upon returning to civilization, none of them can fully recall what happened, only fragments, like distant echoes of a dream.
Years later, when technology allows a new exploration of these icy waters, an expedition discovers the remains of a ship that seems to have been trapped at a depth of 3,000 meters. Curiously, the vessel is perfectly preserved, radiating a faint blue glow from within, as if something inside is waiting to be discovered.
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