Thirty years after the second Death Star's destruction, Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, has vanished. The First Order, a successor to the fallen Galactic Empire, is scouring the galaxy for Luke, as is the Resistance, a military force backed by the Republic and led by Luke's sister, General Leia Organa. Poe Dameron, the Resistance's best pilot, is sent to retrieve a map to Luke's location from a village on the planet Jakku, but Stormtroopers led by Captain Phasma and Kylo Ren, a powerful user of the Dark Side of the Force, capture Poe and wipe out the village. Poe's droid, BB-8, escapes with the map, eventually finding its way to a junkyard settlement and befriending the scavenger Rey.
As Ren uses the Force on Poe to learn about BB-8, a Stormtrooper repulsed by the First Order's brutality decides to escape and frees Poe. Their stolen TIE fighter crashes on Jakku and the Stormtrooper, dubbed "Finn" by Poe, appears to be the only survivor. He makes his way to the nearest settlement and, upon encountering Rey and BB-8, claims to be part of the Resistance. The First Order tracks Finn to the settlement and launches an airstrike, forcing Rey, Finn and BB-8 to steal a run-down ship – unaware it is the Millennium Falcon – and flee the planet.
A breakdown of the Falcon quickly leaves them stranded, and the ship is soon found by Han Solo and Chewbacca, who explain that Luke disappeared after an apprentice turned to the Dark Side and became Kylo Ren, destroying all that he had built. At Starkiller Base, a planet converted into a superweapon capable of destroying whole star systems, Ren is told by the First Order's leader, Supreme Commander Snoke, that to overcome the call of the Light Side, he must kill his father, Han Solo. On the planet Takodana, the Falcon crew meet Maz Kanata, who can help BB-8 reach the Resistance, but Finn decides he'd rather keep running. Rey is drawn by the Force to Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, but she recoils in horror at a vision she receives and flees. Finn takes the lightsaber for safe keeping.
The First Order descends on Takodana, tipped off to BB-8's presence, as Starkiller Base destroys a Republic star system. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn battle the First Order with help from a squadron of Resistance X-Wing fighters led by Poe, who survived the crash of Jakku, but Rey is captured by Kylo Ren and taken to Starkiller Base. Ren attempts to steal the map from Rey's mind, but she is able to resist him, and later uses a Mind Trick to escape her cell. Han is reunited with Leia when he, Chewbacca, and Finn are brought to the Resistance base on D'Qar, where the droid R2-D2 has been dormant since Luke's disappearance.
As Starkiller Base prepares to fire on D'Qar, the Resistance devises a plan to sneak onto the surface and lower the planetary shields so their fighters can attack the superweapon's weak point. Using the Falcon, Han, Chewbacca and Finn infiltrate the base, lower the shields and reunite with Rey, but Poe's X-Wing squadron cannot penetrate the weapon, so Han and Chewbacca use explosives to create an opening. Ren arrives to stop them. Han confronts him, addressing him by his burth name of "Ben", and tries to convince his son to abandon the Dark Side. Kylo Ren claims to be conflicted, but kills Han, and chases Finn and Rey onto the surface. Poe destroys the weapon, triggering a chain reaction that will destroy Starkiller Base.
Finn tries to fight Ren using Anakin's lightsaber, but when he is grievously wounded, Rey calls upon the Force, takes up the lightsaber and engages Ren, the planet's collapse forces to two apart, and both survive the encounter. Rey, Finn and Chewbacca evacuate on the Falcon as the planet is destroyed. While the Resistance celebrates their victory, Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn the loss of Han. R2-D2 suddenly awakens and reveals that he possesses the remaining parts of the map to Luke. Rey, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 leave on the Falcon and follow the map to a distant planet. There Rey discovers Luke, and presents him with his father's lightsaber
As Ren uses the Force on Poe to learn about BB-8, a Stormtrooper repulsed by the First Order's brutality decides to escape and frees Poe. Their stolen TIE fighter crashes on Jakku and the Stormtrooper, dubbed "Finn" by Poe, appears to be the only survivor. He makes his way to the nearest settlement and, upon encountering Rey and BB-8, claims to be part of the Resistance. The First Order tracks Finn to the settlement and launches an airstrike, forcing Rey, Finn and BB-8 to steal a run-down ship – unaware it is the Millennium Falcon – and flee the planet.
A breakdown of the Falcon quickly leaves them stranded, and the ship is soon found by Han Solo and Chewbacca, who explain that Luke disappeared after an apprentice turned to the Dark Side and became Kylo Ren, destroying all that he had built. At Starkiller Base, a planet converted into a superweapon capable of destroying whole star systems, Ren is told by the First Order's leader, Supreme Commander Snoke, that to overcome the call of the Light Side, he must kill his father, Han Solo. On the planet Takodana, the Falcon crew meet Maz Kanata, who can help BB-8 reach the Resistance, but Finn decides he'd rather keep running. Rey is drawn by the Force to Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, but she recoils in horror at a vision she receives and flees. Finn takes the lightsaber for safe keeping.
The First Order descends on Takodana, tipped off to BB-8's presence, as Starkiller Base destroys a Republic star system. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn battle the First Order with help from a squadron of Resistance X-Wing fighters led by Poe, who survived the crash of Jakku, but Rey is captured by Kylo Ren and taken to Starkiller Base. Ren attempts to steal the map from Rey's mind, but she is able to resist him, and later uses a Mind Trick to escape her cell. Han is reunited with Leia when he, Chewbacca, and Finn are brought to the Resistance base on D'Qar, where the droid R2-D2 has been dormant since Luke's disappearance.
As Starkiller Base prepares to fire on D'Qar, the Resistance devises a plan to sneak onto the surface and lower the planetary shields so their fighters can attack the superweapon's weak point. Using the Falcon, Han, Chewbacca and Finn infiltrate the base, lower the shields and reunite with Rey, but Poe's X-Wing squadron cannot penetrate the weapon, so Han and Chewbacca use explosives to create an opening. Ren arrives to stop them. Han confronts him, addressing him by his burth name of "Ben", and tries to convince his son to abandon the Dark Side. Kylo Ren claims to be conflicted, but kills Han, and chases Finn and Rey onto the surface. Poe destroys the weapon, triggering a chain reaction that will destroy Starkiller Base.
Finn tries to fight Ren using Anakin's lightsaber, but when he is grievously wounded, Rey calls upon the Force, takes up the lightsaber and engages Ren, the planet's collapse forces to two apart, and both survive the encounter. Rey, Finn and Chewbacca evacuate on the Falcon as the planet is destroyed. While the Resistance celebrates their victory, Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn the loss of Han. R2-D2 suddenly awakens and reveals that he possesses the remaining parts of the map to Luke. Rey, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 leave on the Falcon and follow the map to a distant planet. There Rey discovers Luke, and presents him with his father's lightsaber