You are not welcome here.
Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the
hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the
aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were
set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the
world's nations argued over what to do with them.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens
has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company
uninterested in the aliens' welfare – they will receive tremendous profits if
they can make the aliens' awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed;
activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA.
The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU
field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious
virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in
the world, as well as the most valuable – he is the key to unlocking the
secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place
left for him to hide: District 9.