In the year 2092, space is full of dangerous floating garbage like discarded satellites and deserted spaceships. The crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot that’s known to be a weapon of mass destruction. They get involved in a risky business deal and travel through space looking for garbage they can make money off of while also competing with rival junk collectors.
The “Space Sweepers” of the title are the crew of the good ship Victory, who make their way by collecting various pieces of flotsam and jetsam floating through the spaceways and selling them. Of course, salvage in space isn’t as simple as casting a net and seeing what floats in, as pieces of space stations and other debris are pirouetting around the planet at lethal speeds if intercepted improperly, making its collection both incredibly profitable and rife with competition. This process is demonstrated in the film’s opening moments with a breathtaking sequence of deep space derring-do that belies the relatively slight budget.
In the lead role, Song Joong-ki plays Tae-ho, a former UTS employee-turned-crewmember of the Victory driven to keep working by a tragedy in his past. In addition, the ship is peopled by devil-may-care Captain Jang (Kim Tae-ri), a tough guy with a heart of gold called Tiger Park (Jin Seon-kyu), and the ship’s requisite anthropomorphic robot Bubs (Yoo Hae-jin).
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