Following the disappearance of her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) makes a living as a bike courier. When she is arrested after a bike accident involving a Police car, Richard's business partner Ana Miller (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) posts her bail. After never claiming her inheritance for many years, believing her father to still be alive, Miller warns Lara that if she does not claim her vast inheritance, her father's country estate, Croft Manor, will be sold off. Lara reluctantly accepts and gains access to a secret chamber in her father's tomb. There she finds a recorded video message from Richard detailing his research into Himiko, the mythical Queen of Yamatai, who was said to command the power over life and death. Richard warns Lara to destroy all of his research, but she ignores his warnings so that she can investigate further.