A Confederate family kidnaps the film’s Black protagonist, Veronica Henley, a modern-day sociologist and New York Times bestselling author played by Janelle Monáe—and enslaves her in the “past.”
The Galileo story is presented as a narrative of the church denying science. But that implies that science is a single, monolithic worldview.
Part history, part science fiction, the Galileo story is less a legend than a myth.