Forfeiture

A blind shaman fleeing loggers and a dying Inuit elder both trigger an ancient beacon using rituals older than memory. For millennia, a secret has been held in the ice of the North and the rainforests of the South: a way to call ancient travellers from the deep past. An answer comes quickly from the stars. Alien leader Chasmaultash arrives at Earth with an armada, but is greeted with a shocking crime scene. Horrified and repulsed by humans' desecration of what she views as a sacred Temple of Life planet, she issues a threatening ultimatum to humanity. Rescuing the human race is forgotten; the mission becomes saving Earth itself. As Chasmaultash finds complex beauty and redemption in the very humans she is here to judge, a dangerous mutiny brews among her ranks. Extremist aliens view humanity as a rapacious parasite that must be purged, and their own leader has become infected with sympathy for them. As the countdown approaches for the species destroying the planet, Chasmaultash must navigate whether she can rescue both humanity and Life on Earth while surviving herself.