When a quiet mountain town begins repeating the same morning over and over, writer Clara Haines discovers that an ancient machine buried beneath the town is manipulating time itself. As the loop grows longer, Clara and a small group uncover that someone activated the device to slow time and send a signal warning of a massive distortion approaching Earth. When the loop finally breaks, the sky opens to reveal a colossal alien structure answering the signal, proving the machine was not built to protect humanity but to call its creators back to the planet.