Manifold: Time

In a future not far removed from our present, the year 2010 finds Earth teetering on the precipice of ecological collapse, a victim of relentless industrial expansion and unchecked population growth. As global governments retreat into isolation, a visionary and controversial figure, Reid Malenfant, proposes a radical solution: nothing less than the exploration and colonization of space. Malenfant, a man whose ambition is matched only by his audacity, gambles the very fabric of existence on a single, desperate endeavor. Against a backdrop of apocalyptic riots and international sabotage, he races against time to launch a spacecraft into the unknown. But the stakes are far higher than mere survival; Malenfant's mission inadvertently—or perhaps intentionally—begins to unravel the fundamental laws of the universe, plunging humanity into an existential crisis where the nature of time itself is called into question. This mind-bending narrative challenges perceptions of our place in the cosmos and the desperate lengths to which humanity might go to secure its future, or perhaps, discover its true past.