Movie Story : A thousand years after catastrophic events drove humanity off Earth, the species now lives on Nova Prime. General Cypher Raige, a celebrated soldier, comes home from a long tour of duty hoping to reconnect with his estranged 13-year-old son, Kitai. An asteroid storm sends their spacecraft crashing onto a wild, unrecognizable Earth. With his father badly injured, Kitai must cross the dangerous landscape alone to retrieve the rescue beacon, a test he has dreamed of since childhood.