The new science fantasy action horror film written for the screen and directed by Alex Garland based on the book of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer and starring Natalie Portman. A group of soldiers enters an environmental disaster zone and only one comes back out alive, though he is grievously injured. In an attempt to save his life, his wife Lena, a biologist, volunteers for a second expedition into the zone to figure out what happened to him.