Rahul, a data scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, discovers the anomaly buried in four independent datasets. Anselm, a priest and intelligence operative living a double life inside a Jerusalem mission compound, receives word that a sealed underground chamber has been opened. Yousef, a municipal engineer enduring the siege of Gaza, finds a name rising in him during prayer that he is not yet ready to speak aloud. And Catalina, an atmospheric physicist, tells her colleague: it is not solar echo — and it was never going to be.