During a live World Cup match, soldiers from the year 2051 appear on the field with a shocking message: humanity will lose a brutal, decades-long war against a ruthless alien species, and the future needs help from the past. Governments around the world begin drafting ordinary people to be sent thirty years ahead to fight. Among them is Dan Forester, a loving father and former soldier, who is torn from his family and thrown into a devastated future where the fight for survival is nearly lost. Facing terrifying, lightning-fast creatures with few chances of coming home, Dan joins forces with a brilliant scientist who may hold the key to stopping them. With his daughter’s future on the line, he has to risk everything to rewrite the fate of the planet.