Grace is not an astronaut and struggles to work out what is going on, but he knows this much: it must be something to do with the phenomenon dimming Earth's sun and threatening all life. Just recently he'd been failing to come up with the words to explain this sympathetically to the children in his class.
Slowly his recollection improves but Grace has another problem: he realises he is not alone.
His wife is lucky to have work as a hostess in a bar but when their daughter gets sick they simply can't afford the medicine she needs.
After he pleads for his old job back and fails he resolves to audition for one of the many exploitative reality game shows that pass for entertainment. Not "The Running Man" though: that would be simply suicidal.
No good will come of this.
Rudolf's work is stressful: he's a workaholic, occasionally meeting with suppliers and colleagues at the house but when he can he rides his horse and takes the children swimming in the nearby river.
Rudolf is the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
CW: the Holocaust done matter of fact, off screen but constantly within earshot
Dek vows to prove himself in the most ostentatious way: to hunt and kill the Kalisk, the apex predator of the death world Genna where everything hunts everything else. The Kalisk has never been taken as a trophy.
The Weyland-Yutani corporation has an expedition on Genna entirely composed of Synths: humans would simply not survive. Nonetheless things have not been going smoothly to say the least.
Dek encounters the heavily damaged, abandoned Synth Thia (Elle Fanning) who claims to have encountered the Kalisk. Much as Yautja hunt alone Dek decides Thia can be used, like a tool, in his hunt.
Shenanigans ensue
This continues to be the case for some time.
CW: full frontal nudity
Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) is less affected but suddenly receives a dream where she speaks to their mother in the past while she was at Camp Alpine Lake, a Christian youth resort in the mountains.
Convinced there are souls trapped there in some way related to The Grabber (Ethan Hawke), perhaps some earlier victims she resolves to sign up as a trainee youth leader there. Reluctantly Finn tags along.
No good will come of this.
CW: violence, suicide, lots of woo
Some while later, three of them are found dead and mutilated in a remote house along with some inconclusive but sinister footage. Main host Riley Brennan (Sarah Durn) and their second camera is never found.
Now twelve years later, Riley's older sister Mia (Camille Sullivan) who has never got over this, is working with a new team of true crime videographers making a documentary in the hope it will keep the search alive.
No good will come of this.
CW: implied sexual assault, suicide and a little violence
Things are about to get worse: radical environmentalist Marcus Blake (Clive Owen) has made plans to gatecrash the company's glitzy gala this evening.
No good will come of this.