In the film Annihilation , a quarantined debriefing was held about an expedition into an anomaly called `` the Shimmer '' .
At the U.S. government 's Area X facility on a southern coast , cellular biology professor and former U.S. Army soldier Lena undergoes a quarantined debriefing about an expedition into an anomaly called `` the Shimmer '' , from which she and her husband are the only survivors .
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