This story has a quiet beginning, and each of the characters seem to be isolated from everything else whenever their parts of the story unfold, but they all eventually meet up in the end. Yet, their meeting is still one single point that is significant in all the rest of the quiet world. For the world stands still, all is quiet, and the secret intrigue and thoughts that are inspired by the discovery of the earth’s predicament are full of fear, confusion, misunderstanding, ignorance, but most of all, heightened imagination at what possibilities might be.
Then, the truth, and the need for things to be the way they were once more.
Aliens are involved, but they are merely a secondary influence. The source of the world stop has been here all along, and human curiosity is to blame.