After 57 years in stasis, warrant officer Ellen Ripley is rescued from an escape shuttle. Working with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Ripley is sent to a space colony to investigate, after communication has been lost. Upon arrival, the team is faced with a range of alien attackers, and must fight to stay alive.

Marianne, a studious loner, and Connell, the popular star athlete, fall in love as teenagers. An adolescent betrayal drives them apart, and over the course of the next several years they weave in and out of each other's lives as they try desperately to get it right each time they are together.

Monte and his daughter are the last survivors of a dangerous mission to deep space. The crew — death-row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives — has vanished. As the mystery unravels, the two must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward a black hole.