Opening with a shot of planet Earth, a voice describes meeting their lover for the first time. “I remember how pretty and pale they looked, standing in the sulfur rain,” they intone. Part science fiction and part road movie, THE BECOMERS is a genre-bending romantic tale of two body-swapping aliens trying to find their place on this big, dumb planet. The film mines an American landscape increasingly beset by uncertainty and violence to capture a real sense of unease and dread underlying the surface of public life. With its fun, lo-fi effects and singular strangeness, THE BECOMERS will make you laugh, cringe, and yearn — all in the same breath.