In 1979, a lumberjack named Carl disappears into the Alaskan woods after a startling encounter with aliens. The story then shifts to the present, where a young computer engineer named Isaac begins a video diary to document his life. After a routine hike, a glowing flying saucer appears and he is taken aboard. Three days later he awakens by the water, shaken by what he believes are vivid hallucinations and a precise, unnatural cut on a broken bone. He uploads the abduction footage online, and it quickly goes viral, turning his life into a media storm. The news, the media, and even the government circle him, each hungry for answers about what really happened. Amid the noise, Isaac starts noticing a thread of alien life that runs through history, suggesting that these beings have been observing humanity for a long time. His digital trail leads him to a post by a girl his age named Sara, who shares a similar story, and the two eventually meet in a quiet local diner, wary but curious about what connects them.
As the investigation deepens, Isaac is subjected to a lie detector test in an effort to prove the veracity of the abduction. He passes, but soon afterwards he and Sara are targeted by men in black who work for a covert government agency led by a relentless figure known as Agent Graves. The authorities reveal that both Isaac and Sara carry an alien tracker, and Isaac resists cooperating with their procedures. With the odds stacked against them, Isaac and Sara flee, pursued by android-like enforcers through a sequence of tense chases and narrow escapes. Their search for safety leads them to Costa Rica, where a skilled hacker named Zed reveals that he knows about a clandestine United Nations agency behind the kidnapping. Zed helps them locate an elderly man named Carl through a remote video chat, and the trio learns that the aliens are planning a visitation to British Columbia in five days.
The team heads north to British Columbia, where they find Carl living in a remote cabin. Carl manages to disable the UN trackers, giving them a brief window of quiet before the day of arrival. When the aliens finally reach the cabin, they explain that their study of humanity hinges on the idea that Jesus Christ holds a central place in the universe. As the men in black close in, the aliens remove Sara’s tracker, and Graves demands answers about Carl’s past. Carl refuses to cooperate, and he is shot by laser fire. Sara is also shot as she attempts to walk away from the destabilized scene. With Sara and Carl in danger and the cabin under siege, Isaac’s tracker is removed by the aliens, and he discovers that he can wield telekinetic and chronokinetic powers. He uses these abilities to break free, saving Zed and physically transporting Sara and Carl to safety as the cabin collapses around them. In a final, dramatic escape, the aliens themselves intervene to shield Sara and Carl, and the group flees in a shimmering flying saucer.
Six months later, Isaac and Sara have settled into a quieter life in Costa Rica, trying to reconstruct a sense of normalcy. Zed and Carl have founded a new science program, aiming to study the broader implications of the encounter, while Agent Graves has been dismissed from his position. The story closes on a note of cautious hope, implying a future where human and alien understandings might coexist, even as the memory of that visit lingers.
