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story line

British  

noun

  1. the plot of a book, film, play, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Fitting within the story timeline between 2012’s “Prometheus” and the original 1979 “Alien,” the new film finds a group of would-be colonists landing on a deserted planet and finding it is perhaps not so deserted.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2017

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