Ambition

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Ambition

2014

0h 6m

6.7(50 votes)

Science Fiction

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A young apprentice struggles to master nanotechnology on an alien world and prove herself to her enigmatic master. Will her herculean goals remain tantalizingly out of reach, or will she fulfill them and in the process, change life as we know it?

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Aidan Gillen

Master

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Aisling Franciosi

Apprentice

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