Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley has been cast to star in Mind Fall, a science fiction film from La Haine‘s Mathieu Kassovitz, with a script from Graham Moore (The Imitation Game).

Taking place in London in a near future where memories have become the most sought-after, profitable and highly illegal drug, Mind Fall is follows top trafficker Ardis Varnado (Ridley). By physically removing memories from individuals desperate for cash, she can then resell them to wealthy clients. These memories become indistinguishable from their new host’s “real” memories.

Meanwhile, Varnado struggles with her own addiction to the memories, and struggles to separate her lived experiences from those she’s implanted. So, when she stands accused of murdering one of her buyers, she has no choice but to solve the crime herself and find out the truth.

Mind Fall will mark the respected French filmmaker and actor’s third English-language directorial effort – after supernatural horror Gothika and the Vin Diesel-starrer Babylon A.D. – and Kassovitz’s first time directing a feature in over a decade  (his last was L’ordre et la morale, 2011). Most recently, he starred in political thriller Le Bureau Des Légendes, even directing a handful of episodes in its last season, as well as Yvan Attal’s drama Les choses humaines. 

As for Ridley, this marks her first major genre project since she said goodbye to Rey, and since the release of the less-than-stellar Chaos Walking.