While Vincent is the hero, Jerome (Jude Law) is the soul of the film. In a world where the only currency is genetic perfection, Jerome is the wealthiest man alive—and he wants to die. He traded his future to Vincent in exchange for enough alcohol to forget his own existence.

But Gattaca asks a dangerous question: What happens to ambition when the race is fixed from the starting line?

Every morning, Vincent undergoes a brutal ritual of scrubbing his body of loose cells, taping a vial of Jerome’s blood to his leg for daily injections, and meticulously applying contact lenses. He walks into Gattaca as a janitor and climbs the ranks to become a navigator for the Titan mission.