A group of people find themselves trapped on board a dark and dirty cave-like alien spacecraft. They seem to be strangers and are puzzled by why they are imprisoned in this strange place.
The aliens cruelly explore their minds and play back sequences of their life. Strapped to the walls of the craft like prisoners in a medieval jail, they realise they have been abducted from different time periods, the latest in 2050 and the earliest in 1969. They also work out that the aliens feed off and harvest their fears and emotions as a form of fuel.
One of the prisoners is John (James Gallanders), who worked in the U.S. government’s War Department, and who says he was involved in recovering a dead alien and the wreckage of its spaceship at Roswell in 1947. In the vicinity of the crash a baby with exceptional telepathic powers was born. This child is now one of his fellow prisoners and he discloses they called her Sera – short for Specialised Extraterrestrial Reconnaissance Agent. John recounts how they used Sera in Project Ithaca as a weapon to fight the alien forces and that the fate of themselves and humanity now depends on her.
Project Ithaca is an imaginative change from most films that use the alleged flying saucer crash at Roswell as a launching point. In the hands of director Nicholas Humphries we get a very dark, nightmarish, swear-filled, convoluted, and claustrophobic vision of alien contact that is shocking and draining.
