At the end of Spaceman,Adam Sandler’s character, Jakub, finds himself back home — or does he? The final moments of the new science fiction drama are ambiguous, but they hint at a personal peace that its main character has been striving toward throughout. “What I like about art in any shape is for it to leave you with a thought,” director Johan Renck told Netflix. “If I turn off a film or leave a movie theater, and there’s something from that film that still kind of resonates, and the currents are still moving within me, that’s a success –– and a requirement for me.”

Below, you’ll find a map to the currents moving within Spaceman’s ending, with input from Renck himself.

Based on Jaroslav Kalfař’s novel Spaceman in Bohemia, Spaceman tells the story of Jakub, an astronaut on a surreal voyage to investigate the Chopra cloud,...