The Nana Project (2024) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Big Adam explains that he missed his target of 2018 and ended up in 2022 by accident. He was trying to stop Maya before she could take control of the timeline, but the time jump went wrong. This mistake actually works out because it allows him to meet his younger self and gather the help he needs to eventually reach 2018 and stop Maya properly.

• time travel
• Adam Reed
• 2018
• 2022
• timeline

Maya was Louis's business partner who exploited his discovery of time travel. After Louis created the particle accelerator called 'The Adam Project,' Maya manipulated the timeline to make herself successful and turned the planet into a dystopian hellscape by 2050. She killed Laura when Laura attempted a time jump to 2018, and she pursued Adam because he was the only one who could stop her.

• Maya Sorian
• Louis
• villain
• time travel
• dystopian

Big Adam explains that they needed to let the fight happen because if Young Adam doesn't go through that experience, he won't develop into his stronger self as an adult. The pain and humiliation are necessary for his future development. Big Adam regrets letting it happen but believes it was essential for shaping who Young Adam will become.

• Big Adam
• Young Adam
• Ray
• bullying
• character development

Laura is Big Adam's wife who attempted to jump back to 2018 before the events of the movie. Maya killed her during that time jump. However, she later appears in 2022 to help the Adams escape Maya's henchmen. After helping them reach 2018, Maya kills Laura again while pursuing them, making her death a constant in the timeline that Adam cannot prevent.

• Laura
• Big Adam
• death
• time jump
• Maya

Big Adam reveals that Louis was never a good dad and only cared more about his work than his own son. His anger stems from feeling abandoned by his father, who chose his research over family. Young Adam points out that Big Adam is actually angry about Louis's death and finds it easier to be mad at him than to grieve properly.

• Big Adam
• Louis
• father
• anger
• family
• grief

During the final confrontation, Adam tricks the villains into firing at the accelerator's electromagnetic shield. This causes the accelerator to destabilize. When Maya fires an armor-piercing round to kill the heroes, the shield pulls the bullet toward the younger Maya, killing her. This causes the older Maya to disintegrate and be erased from existence entirely.

• Maya
• accelerator
• bullet
• destruction
• erased

Yes, Louis acknowledges that he is going to die in a car accident. He asks the Adams not to tell his younger self when or how it happens, but he knows his death is coming. He expresses pride in both versions of his son and shares a final emotional moment with them playing catch before they return to their timelines.

• Louis
• death
• car accident
• finale
• family

After spending time with his older self and experiencing the emotional journey of trying to save the future, Young Adam gains perspective on his behavior. Big Adam tells him to be a better son to Ellie. Seeing how much his mother struggles and sacrifices for him, combined with processing his grief over his father, helps Adam become more loving and supportive.

• Adam
• Ellie
• mother
• change
• growth
• family

Time travel is powered by Louis's particle accelerator called 'The Adam Project.' Characters can jump to specific time periods using ships activated by DNA. If someone dies outside of their fixed time (the time they originally belonged to), they disintegrate. When someone returns to their timeline, their memories reconcile with their past selves.

• time travel
• particle accelerator
• DNA
• timeline
• rules

After the timeline is corrected, Adam encounters Laura when she mistakenly walks into the wrong classroom. He offers to walk her to the right building, setting up their eventual marriage. This creates a closed loop where their meeting was always destined to happen.

• Adam
• Laura
• college
• meeting
• romance
• future

The movie establishes that if someone dies outside of their fixed time, they disintegrate. When the bullet is pulled toward younger Maya, she dies in 2018, which is not her original time. This causes the older Maya to be erased from existence, showing that manipulating the timeline has severe consequences.

• Maya
• younger self
• paradox
• erased
• timeline

Laura uses a landmine to try to stop Christos from chasing the Adams, but it doesn't kill him. Christos later appears at Maya's facility during the final battle, indicating that the explosion either malfunctioned or wasn't powerful enough to stop him, though it did delay him.

• Christos
• landmine
• Laura
• survives
• chase