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The location of the first nuclear detonation, mirrored in the film by the mushroom clouds seen on the horizon. Core Themes & Meta-Narrative The film is famously complex, structured as a television documentary about the making of a play called Asteroid City

"So," she said. "What now?"

The year is 1955. The location is a blur of dust and impossible light, a few hours’ drive from the nearest highway that actually appears on any map. The town is called Asteroid City, population 87, and its sole reason for existing is a massive, asymmetrical crater that yawns open at its center like a fossilized wound. A sign, bleached by the sun and peppered with buckshot, reads: "ASTEROID CITY: Population 87. You’d Think We’d Be More Humble." Asteroid City