Astronaut Mark Watney has a problem. After a freak dust storm that separated him from his crew, he is presumed dead and abandoned on Mars. Stranded, injured, and with no way to contact Earth, he is completely on his own.

But Watney is also a botanist, an engineer, and incredibly resourceful. As his supplies run low and the odds against him stack higher, he turns to science, humour and sheer determination in a bid to survive the Red Planet.