In a dystopian colony on a planet called New World, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) has grown up believing a virus has killed all women and given all living creatures the ability to read each other’s minds and hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words and sounds called "the Noise. "

When he discovers an area that is completely silent, he happens upon a young girl, Viola Eade (Daisy Ridley).

Based on the novel The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.