Brie Larson stars as the eponymous Marvel Comics superhero in this sci-fi action adventure co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Vers (Larson) is a powerful Kree warrior, trained by Starforce and eager to fight in the ongoing war against her home planet's arch-enemy, the shape-shifting Skrulls. In pursuit of Skrull leader Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), Vers travels to Earth in the year 1995 and begins to be plagued by visions of her forgotten past as a pilot in the US Air Force.

She teams up with future head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to hunt down Talos, while continuing to search for answers about her true identity.