Jupiter’s Moon (2017) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Aryan begins levitating immediately after being shot multiple times by police officer László at the Hungarian border. The levitation appears to be triggered by the traumatic near-death experience, though the film leaves the exact mechanism mysterious. Rather than dying from his wounds, Aryan floats upward before crashing back to earth, surviving despite the gunshot injuries.

• aryan levitation
• powers
• shooting
• supernatural ability

Gábor helps Aryan escape primarily to exploit his levitation ability for financial gain. After witnessing Aryan float in the hospital ward, Gábor sees an opportunity to use the boy as a spiritual healer in Budapest, attracting paying patients and splitting the profits. Gábor also promises to help Aryan find his father, though this promise is partly manipulative.

• gabor stern
• exploitation
• escape
• healing scheme

Gábor sells fraudulent medical referrals to refugees, allowing them to be transferred from the border camp to a Budapest hospital. Once in Budapest, the refugees can disappear and continue their journey toward Western Europe. Gábor profits from each referral while Vera, his girlfriend and fellow doctor, assists in processing the paperwork. This scam exploits desperate people fleeing war.

• referrals
• scam
• refugees
• budapest hospital

The bombing occurs because a refugee who stole the Dashni family's papers uses Aryan's father's identity to carry out a terrorist attack on the Budapest Metro. This terrorist act kills dozens of people. The stolen documents link Aryan to the plot, making authorities believe he is one of the bombers.

Foreshadowing: Earlier, a refugee uses the stolen Dashni papers bearing Aryan's father's name, creating the dangerous identity connection.

• terrorist attack
• metro bombing
• stolen papers
• bombing

During the Metro bombing, Aryan survives by levitating. When the explosive device detonates, he floats upward through the chaos and rises to the roof of a nearby building. A woman on the street witnesses him floating upward, leading to rumors of an angel.

• aryan survives
• float
• roof
• bombing escape

Vera betrays Gábor and Aryan because the terrorist used the Dashni family's stolen papers, making authorities believe Aryan is one of the Metro bombers. When Gábor brings the wounded Aryan back to the hospital seeking Vera's help, she contacts the police rather than assist them, believing Aryan to be a dangerous terrorist suspect.

• vera betrayal
• police
• terrorist suspect
• aryan

Gábor is shot during the final hotel confrontation with László. After overpowering a police officer to free Aryan and triggering a fire alarm to create a distraction, Gábor is shot in the struggle. He uses his final moments to hold László at gunpoint, giving Aryan enough time to jump through a window and fly away before dying.

• gabor death
• shot
• hotel
• sacrifice

Aryan's father drowns during the chaotic border crossing when the refugees attempt to cross the Hungarian border by boat. He is among many who perish in the water when the crossing goes wrong and papers are lost. Gábor discovers this information while running his referral scheme but keeps it from Aryan, who continues searching for his father throughout the film.

Foreshadowing: The border crossing chaos and separation establishes the deadly conditions that claim Aryan's father.

• father death
• drowning
• border crossing
• drowned

Gábor seeks forgiveness after learning that Aryan's father has died and believing Aryan may have died in the bombing. Filled with remorse for exploiting a vulnerable child, Gábor tries to return the money he earned from his schemes to the family of the young athlete he killed through malpractice during a surgery. When they refuse the money, he sincerely asks for forgiveness before leaving.

• remorse
• forgiveness
• malpractice
• victim family

At the film's conclusion, hundreds of people in Budapest look upward in awe as Aryan escapes through the window and flies away. The ending is bittersweet, Aryan achieves a miraculous escape and finds hope through his ability, but at the cost of Gábor's life. The crowd witnessing his flight represents wonder and hope amid the tragedy, though the pursuit remains unresolved and the human toll remains heavy.

• ending
• crowd
• escape
• flying
• hope