When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a longdead lover Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories but its purpose in doing so remains a mysterySolaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience and literature for centuries can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within
When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a longdead lover Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories but its purpose in doing so remains a mysterySolaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience and literature for centuries can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within