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A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.

With the world fighting a losing battle against the multitudes of a fierce and unstoppable extraterrestrial invader, humankind is living on borrowed time. Amid chaos, and an impending Armageddon, the former Green Beret First Sergeant, biology teacher, and doting father-of-one Dan Forester, finds himself in the ruins of an alien-infested, peril-laden urban maze, struggling for survival and answers along with a doomed army of untried soldiers. Now, a handful of defenders carries the weight of the world's desperate hopes. Can they come by a second chance?—Nick Riganas

The former Iraq military leader and presently science teacher Dan Forester lives in the suburbs with his beloved wife Emmy Forester and their young daughter Muri. Dan aims to work in a research laboratory and hates his estranged father James Forester, who left his family when he was a boy. During the 2022 World Cup, the final soccer game is interrupted by soldiers from the future that explain that they need people from the past to help them, since aliens are destroying the earthlings, and they cannot stand anymore the alien forces. Dan is forced to enlist and to wear a bracelet to track him. He unsuccessfully tries to defect and jumps with other people thirty years in the future to Miami Beach, Florida. However, only a few survive since there was an error in the location. Dan becomes the commander of the survivors due to his military experienced and they are ordered to rescue a research team in a nearby location before the airplanes drop bombs in the city. They find that the researchers are dead, and Dan retrieves twelve samples of specific research. Only a few of them survives the alien attack in Miami and the survivors are brought to a military camp at the Dominican Republican. Soon Dan learns that the commander of the military resistance is his daughter, Colonel Muri Forester, who is researching a means to destroy the powerful alien female that breeds uninterruptedly and resists to the toxins used to exterminate the males. Dan helps her with the research and now they are the last hope on Earth to destroy the alien invaders.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In December 2022, biology teacher and former Green Beret (Chris Pratt), Dan Forester, fails to get a job at a prestigious research center. While he is watching the World Cup at a Christmas party, soldiers from the year 2051 arrive to warn that humanity is on the brink of extinction due to alien invaders: the Whitespikes. In response, members of the world's military forces are sent into the future, but fewer than 20% survive, prompting a worldwide draft.

After a year of the draft and a growing anti-war movement, there is little hope for humanity's survival. Dan receives a notice that he has been drafted and reports with other draftees to basic training. Dan deduces with fellow draftee Charlie (Sam Richardson) that in order to prevent a paradox, those drafted have already died before the war starts in 2050. Emmy Forester (Betty Gilpin), Dan's wife and a therapist for returning draftees tells Dan that only 30% of the draftees return from the war and have horror tales of aliens and the clicking sounds they make. Emmy begs Dan to take help from James Forester (J. K. Simmons), Dan's father, an anti-government extremist and Vietnam veteran. Dan and James are not on talking terms as Dan thinks James abandoned him. Dan reaches out to James, but even James can't help in this case, as the tracker on Dan is synced to his pulse.

Dan's crew includes Charlie, Dorian (Edwin Hodge), a cancer-stricken draftee on his third tour of duty (who killed the first ever Whitespike on record). Lt. Hart (Jasmine Mathews). The Jumplink that allows time travel only allows travel between 2 points in time that keep moving forward as per normal. Time travel is not yet perfected, so this is the only way possible for now and they can't jump to an earlier point in the war. The Whitespikes retreat into their nest every 6 days for 1 day of rest. Thats when they insert the troops. Dan's crew is inserted to protect the last lab which is studying the Whitespikes. If the lab is lost, the war is lost.

The draftees are sent forward in time to Miami Beach, but few survive (only the ones who fall in a pool on the top of a high-rise), having been dropped in the incorrect location above the city. The draftees are ordered by Colonel Forester (Yvonne Strahovski) to rescue nearby lab personnel before the area is sterilized. The draftees discover the lab personnel dead but recover their research. Dan radios to command about the situation and is instructed to escape the area. Many of the draftees are killed (when the Whitespikes attack them inside the building) with only a handful able to reach safety.

The survivors wake up in a military encampment in the Dominican Republic. Dan is asked to report to Colonel Forester, who is his grown daughter Muri. Muri tells Dan that she brought Dan to the future for a reason, and she will tell at the right time. Within a few weeks humanity will be extinct. She requests him to accompany her on a mission to capture a female Whitespike, which are rarer than the males typically encountered. Muri has a toxin that kills the males, but not the females. So, she wants to capture one to study why not and what would kill it. Muri also tells Dan that the Whitespikes appeared out of nowhere and managed to evade all satellites. They first attacked Russia. They cage the female, only to have hundreds of males descend on their position. As the helicopter with the female lifts off, Dan and Muri escape to a beach and radio for rescue. Dan and Muri are transported to the Jumplink, located on a fortified oil rig in the middle of the ocean.

Dan and his daughter work on a toxin that can kill the captured female. They find a match for killing the aliens, just as they start to breach the base. As the Whitespikes attack the base, the formerly captive female spears Col. Forester with one of her spikes. She plummets from the gantry and Dan follows her off just before he is transported back to the past with the toxin to mass produce it. Dan tries to give the toxin to the military so it can be sent back to the future, but learns that the Jumplink is offline, having been destroyed by the Whitespikes. The world has become chaotic with the news that the Jumplink is offline, foretelling the war was lost.

Brainstorming with his wife, he deduces that the Whitespikes did not arrive in 2048 but came much earlier. Further research leads him to theorize the Whitespikes are actually already on Earth, and that global warming caused their release when they thawed out and emerged from under the ice caps. Their first location being near Northern Russia. The Government refuses to help Dan as the world is rioting and Russia has closed its borders. So, Dan, Dorian and Charlie team up with James to enter Russia covertly. Lt Hart joins Dan as she knew Col Forester.

Dan leads a mission to Russia to prove his theory and finds an alien ship in an ice cap. The team debates telling the world about the problem but decides to end the threat right then and there. Once inside, they realize that the alien ship is not actually a Whitespikes ship, and that the Whitespikes were cargo for the deceased alien crew. They proceed with injecting the dormant Whitespikes with the toxin; this kills those injected but wakes all the remaining Whitespikes.

The team realizes the initial Whitespikes they find are only a drop in the bucket and decide to detonate the ship manually. The team successfully blows up the alien ship once they realize it is the only method of containment, but one female escapes. Dan and his father track down the female and are able to kill it in a frenetic battle to the death, preventing the future war from occurring. Dan returns home to his wife and daughter, secure knowing that the future has been altered.