Forty passengers on a commercial spaceship Hunter-Gratzner are heading for other worlds. However when there are technical problems, they must crash land the spaceship on a distant planet. But only ten survive and one of them, Riddick, is a dangerous convict and wants to take control of events. The planet at first seems barren, with no evidence of water or living creatures, but when the sun sets the survivors discover they have the planet’s terrifying nightlife to contend with.