Throughout ten chapters, the podcast narrates the failure of the first colonizing expedition to Mars in a post-pandemic era
What happened on Mars? What triggered the chaos and catastrophe of the scientific expedition Mars Premium? What happened to make the 136 settlers try to flee to save their lives? Why did only 23 of them return to Earth? What are they hiding? And, above all, why did they come back?
Onda Cero Podcast premiered this Thursday, Returneda disturber thriller psychological science fiction of ten chapters, written and directed by Julio Rojasone of the most relevant audiovisual creators in Spanish of the moment, responsible among others for the most listened to audio-fiction in Spanish worldwide, Case 63Ondas Award for Best Podcast.
In a post-pandemic context, Returned tells how the scientific expedition Mars Premiumfinanced by the billionaire Aaron Forbeswas looking for a new home for Humanity on Mars.
After 254 days, the 136 settlers sent desperately try to leave to save their lives. Something monstrous is happening… Only 23 manage to return to Earth, with no news of the rest of the expedition.
Román is a psychologist who deals with the reintegration of three of these returnees. Through therapy sessions with each of them, He reconstructs a sinister puzzle that contains the truth about what happened in the module Mars 3. But the returnees hide the truth: What happened on Mars?
A pact of silence and a mission
After their return to Earth, the lives of the returnees have changed radically. They no longer have friends or a partner, they will no longer sleep a wink at night, they have become sullen, secretive, tormented. A pact of silence and a secret unites them. But also a mission: to prevent humans from returning to Mars.
What they saw and experienced there is horror in capital letters, something impossible to describe and process by the mind: the very destiny of humanity.
Julio Rojas, creator of Returned
Returned Its main roles feature the voices of José Ángel Fuentes, Ana Isabel Rodríguez, Guillermo Romero, Emma Cifuentes, Licia Alonso and Alma Naranjo, among others.
Returned is a fiction podcast created by Julio Rojas, author of international hits such as Case 63 (for which he won an Ondas award and whose North American adaptation has starred Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac), Erasure, Turing and confluence either The mystery of the Cenoteamong other audio works.
But Rojas is a prolific creator of countless television hits and a renowned literary author. In addition to Ondas, he is the recipient of the Altazo Best Screenplay award from the National Arts (Chile), at the Cartagena Film Festival (Spain), Lima (Peru) and Havana (Cuba). The author is in addition to the script of The life of fishworthy of the Goya Award for Best Latin American Film.
Returned It can now be heard in full on the Onda Cero website and app and on the main audio platforms.
