Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction thriller film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig.

The film stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, and Noah Taylor, and is based on the short story "—All You Zombies—"
by Robert A. Heinlein.

Plot
A time travelling agent is trying to disarm a bomb that explodes and burns his face. Someone approaches and helps
him to grasp his time travelling device, which then transports him to a hospital in the future. While the agent is
recovering from facial reconstruction, it is revealed that he has been trying to prevent the attack of the so-called "Fizzle
Bomber" in New York in 1975. After his recovery, he receives his last assignment.
The agent moves to 1970s New York. As a bartender, he starts a conversation with one of the customers. The customer,
John, writes true confession articles under the pen name "The Unmarried Mother." This pseudonym is explained by
his own life story, which he tells the bartender.
Born female, the customer grew up as "Jane" in an orphanage. She excelled in her studies but had difficulty fitting in.
Jane decided any children she had would be raised in a proper family, and thus avoided relationships. As an adult she
applied for a program called "Space Corp", which promised women the chance to go to space while providing
astronauts with intimate R&R, but she was later disqualified because of a medical condition which had never before
been revealed to her, but which greatly interested a man named Robertson.
Jane later bumped into a man who said he was waiting for someone. The two eventually fell in love with each other,
but one day, the man disappeared. In time, Robertson approached Jane, revealing that Space Corp was really a part
of the Temporal Agency, and this agency now wanted to recruit her. They broke off contact when it was discovered
that Jane was pregnant with her ex-lover's baby. While performing a Caesarean section, doctors discovered Jane
was intersex, with internalized male sex organs, as well as female sex organs. Complications during the birth forced
them to remove her female sex organs, and as a result, she had to undergo a gender reassignment and begin living as
a man. Furthermore, the baby was stolen by a mysterious man. Ever since Jane, who now goes by John, has been
living a bitter life, writing fiction as "The Unmarried Mother."
The agent offers to take John back in time to the day that Jane met the man who would later become her lover and
leave her, so John can take revenge and kill the man for ruining his (Jane's) life. In return, John will take over the
agent's job for whatever duration he wishes. The agent reveals his time-travel device, and the two jump to that day in
1963. John intends to kill his past lover prior to the moment when the lover first meets Jane. While waiting, John
encounters Jane, and as they begin talking, John realizes that he is the man who later becomes Jane's lover. The baby
born from this "self-fertilization" is stolen by the agent, who uses the time machine to take the baby to the orphanage,
18 years earlier in 1945. Therefore, Jane, John, and their baby are the same person, revealing a predestination
paradox.
The agent goes to 1975 New York, where he helps the burned man from the beginning of the film. The agent returns
to 1963, a few months after he dropped John off. He convinces John that John must leave Jane behind, and he uses
the machine to take them both to the Temporal Agency. John now takes over the agent's job, so the agent can retire in
1975 New York, close to the day of the Fizzle Bomber's attack. Upon arrival, the agent's time-travel device does not
decommission itself as planned and can still be used. He has been ordered to check a launderette at the moment the
Fizzle Bomber will be there. The Fizzle Bomber turns out to be the agent's own future self, now suffering
from psychosis as a result of excessive time travel. The Fizzle Bomber insists that his actions have saved and will save
more lives than the lives lost, and that they ultimately lead to the reinforcement of the Temporal Agency. He tries to
convince the agent that the only way to end the cycle is for the agent to spare the bomber's life, unlike the Fizzle
Bomber did in his past as the agent. The agent denies he will ever become the Fizzle Bomber and kills his future self.
The film finally reveals that in 1975, John is the man who travelled to New York and was burned while disarming a
bomb. His subsequent facial reconstruction significantly changes his appearance, and it is now clear that Jane, John,
the agent, and the Fizzle Bomber are the same person. This agent's creation was orchestrated by Robertson to create
an agent who has no ties to time. This "perfect" temporal agent was responsible for both his own conception and death;
he has driven the predestination paradox to its limit.