The Soviet Union never landed cosmonauts on the Moon, but it got there first in another way: with a robot. This film follows the engineers behind Lunokhod, the Soviet lunar rover program led by Alexander Kemurdjian, built to explore the Moon by remote control while the manned race with America stalled. Lunokhod 1 launched aboard Luna 17 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in November 1970, landed in the Mare Imbrium, and drove seven miles across the surface over eleven months under commands from ground controllers on Earth. Lunokhod 2 followed aboard Luna 21 in 1973, operating near the crater LeMonnier and covering twenty-three miles while measuring solar X-rays and lunar soil properties. Archival footage and expert interviews trace how this rover technology outlived the space race itself: engineering developed for the Moon vehicles was later adapted for robotic work in the irradiated wreckage of Chernobyl. The film's throughline is that connection, a lunar program built as a consolation prize that ended up serving on Earth's worst nuclear disaster.