THE DOOR
The year is 2130. Earth is over populated. The atmosphere is braking down, scortching the surface of the planet. Scientists have figured out how to make a stable wormhole. The Government develops the "Colony Initiative"—to save humanity—a one-way trip through The Door promising a new life on an off-world Earth-like paradise. Strangely, they only send the homeless and convicted prisoners through the door.
Alex Walsh, a disillusioned mechanic, volunteers for the colony, but when Alex steps through, he doesn't find a colony in paradise. He falls out of a disposal chute into a mountain of corpses and mutants. He learns that The Door wasn't a bridge to the stars; it was a garbage disposal for humanity’s unwanted.
For reasons unexplained, Alex finds his way back into the vortex and steps back through The Door. But he's not in 2130. He's in 3131. He is an anomoly. No one has ever returned from The Door before Jack. He is scheduled for termination and his brain to be studied. When the EFCG’s (Earth Federation Cooperative Government) cyborg hunter, KAEL, comes to "sanitize" the anomoly, Alex is rescued by Nolan Hunt, a timid, soft-spoken Archivist for the EFCG.
Nolan has spent his life curating the regime's lies, believing the "Banished" go to a better place. Finding Alex alive shatters Nolan’s worldview. Nolan makes a split-second decision to save Alex, abandoning his safe life to go on the run.
Alex and Nolan bond over the silence of a dead world, and a romance begins to bloom between the mechanic who fixes machines and the historian who fixes the truth.