We need to learn how to cope with our inability to explain everything we see and experience. We need to accept that stories are not just stories. They are windows into other worlds, concepts and themes. Annihilation asks many questions and lets us find the answers. Will humanity ever learn how to overcome its own self-destructive tendencies? Are we destined to repeat the cycle? To keep hurting each other and ourselves? To slowly kill the world around us, like a tumour does with its host?