Say you're a time
traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why
this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every
year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the
hundredth anniversary of his birth, and drinks twelve-year-old Scotch
(lots of it) with all the other versions of who he has been and who he
will be. Sure, the party is the same year after year, but at least it's
one party where he can really, well, be himself.
The year he
turns 39, though, the party takes a stressful turn for the worse. Before he even makes it into the grand ballroom for a drink he encounters the
body of his forty-year-old self, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. As the older versions of himself at the party point out, the onus is on
him to figure out what went wrong - he has one year to stop himself from
being murdered, or they're all goners.
As he follows clues that
he may or may not have willingly left for himself, he discovers rampant
paranoia and suspicion among his younger selves, and a frightening
conspiracy among the Elders. Most complicated of all is a haunting woman possibly named Lily who turns up at the party this year, the first
person besides himself he's ever seen at the party. For the first time,
he has something to lose. Here's hoping he can save some version of his
own life.