Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone. Viola crash lands on a planet where all the women have been killed and all the men can hear each other's thoughts. Once there, she meets Todd who protects her from the clutches of an evil mayor. Chaos Walking is a 2021 American dystopian science-fiction action-thriller film directed by Doug Liman and written by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford.