Rain Carridine (Cailee Spaney) and her humanoid "synthetic" brother Andy (David Johnsson) join a band of frustrated youngsters on a renegade mission to steal cryochambers from an abandoned spaceship hovering above their space colony of Jackson's Star, a sunless mining outpost of megacorp Weyland-Yutani. Their plan: escape to Yvaga, the nearest colony where the "sunsets are beautiful" and humans aren't tied into corporate slavery.
But their supposedly easy task of pilfering equipment is interrupted when a spate of scorpion-like slimy "parasitoids", defrosted from their containers....