We then meet Lena (Natalie Portman), a biology professor miserably unaware of anything having to with lighthouses or heavenly bodies, who is grieving her missing - in - action military husband. (vulture.com)
Now, he's picked up a higher budget and has brought Jeff VanderMeer's novel to the big screen with Natalie Portman in the lead as an ex-military biologist whose military husband returns after a mysterious one - year absence. (cinemasight.com)
In the next scene, she's mourning her disappeared military husband, Kane (Oscar Issac), for a few minutes before he suddenly walks through the front door, triggering a series of events that leads Lena to join a team going into The Shimmer. (mubi.com)