Timescape

A group of peculiarly behaved tourists arrives with bus driver Oscar and insists on staying at the remote guest house. Ben helps one of them, Quish, after a minor accident, and discovers Quish's passport has stamps from disasters decades apart. The stamps hint that the visitors might be connected to famous catastrophes.

Ben questions Quish about the passport and the tourists' true purpose. Quish responds by warning Ben to leave town, signaling danger. The tension between them hints at deeper motives behind the visitors' arrival.

Caldwell, Ben's father-in-law, declares Ben an unfit parent and obtains custody of Hillary. The move deepens Ben's desperation as he suddenly loses daily contact with his daughter. The town's power dynamics shift as familial ties are weaponized.

Reeve reveals their true nature as time travelers from the future who visit past disasters. She drugs Ben and seduces him, and Oscar revives him afterward. The scene confirms the tourists' anomalous abilities and threat level.

The group moves to confront the tourists at the guest house, but a meteorite strike devastates the town. Ben wrestles with the catastrophe while trying to protect Hillary and others. The disaster adds a fatalistic dimension to the visitors' interest in history's tragedies.

Ben finds Hillary alive at Caldwell's house and spends the night helping survivors. Meanwhile, the tourists stroll through the devastation with detached fascination, as if watching a spectacle rather than a tragedy. The contrast highlights the visitors' lack of empathy.

The next day, Ben realizes the tourists are waiting for a second disaster that will affect a local school used as a relief center. He understands that the victims and responders may become pawns in a cruel timeline play. He resolves to warn and protect as many people as possible.

A gas explosion destroys the school building, killing Hillary and many survivors, including Quish who had followed Ben. The tragedy underscores the tourists' disturbing fixation on disaster across time. The town reels from the devastation as the visitors observe.

The tourists seize Ben so that an official from their time, the Undersecretary, can examine and potentially mend his timescape. Ben is taken to a controlled environment where the timeline manipulation is discussed. The involvement of a higher authority intensifies the stakes.

Ben accuses Reeve of lacking humanity, prompting a severing confrontation. She slips him Quish's passport, which conceals a time travel device, deepening the mystery of how the tourists move through time. The reveal reframes the entire conflict as a manipulation of fate.

Ben travels to the previous evening and tries to remove Hillary from Caldwell's house, but he is caught and arrested. The act demonstrates the high personal cost of attempting to alter time. The arrest becomes a turning point in the plan to escape confinement.

Using his one phone call, Ben contacts his pre-existing self before Reeve can incapacitate him. His earlier self helps him escape from jail, setting up a coordinated effort to save the town. The two Bens work in tandem across time to shield people from further harm.

The two Bens draw most of the town's residents to safety at a church on the other side of town by ringing the bells to Für Elise, his wife's favorite piece. They shepherd people away from danger as the timeline reshapes under pressure. The scene blends a personal memory with collective resilience.

Ben meets with the Undersecretary to return to his original timeframe. The official warns him not to interfere further and threatens to reset the timeline, though Ben challenges the authority by calling the bluff. The exchange exposes the fragility and rigidity of time travel governance.

Some time later, Hillary manages bookings for the completed guest house while Ben reads old love letters from his late wife. When Hillary looks up, Ben has vanished, and Für Elise is heard on the piano, implying he has been erased or moved to another time. The final image preserves the personal cost of meddling with time.