The film stars Flaming Lips members Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, and Wayne Coyne, with the latter playing a benevolent Martian. During the first Christmas on a newly-colonized Mars, the human inhabitants are facing difficulties from both technical (gravity control pod malfunctions) and emotional (suicide and loneliness) fronts. When Major Syrtis, played by Drozd, finds an unlikely ally in the Martian played by Coyne, it looks as though Christmas on Mars might be saved after all.
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