As anticipation continues to rise for Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, Disney has now released the first full synopsis for the film.

With Alden Ehrenreich on board as a younger take on this most infamous of scruffy looking nerf herders, the synopsis reads:

Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

In addition to Hail, Caesar’s Ehrenreich playing the young Solo, the film will also feature Donald Glover as Lando, Joonas Suotamo as Chewie, Woody Harrelson as a mentor of Han’s, and roles for Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton, Paul Bettany, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is currently set for a May 25th release.

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