THE DOOR
The year is 2030. 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.
JACK RIPARR, a disillusioned mechanic, volunteers for the colony, but when Jack 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, Jack finds his way back into the vortex and steps back through The Door. But he's not in 2030. 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, Jack is rescued by Harry Henderson, a timid, soft-spoken Archivist for the EFCG.
Harry has spent his life curating the regime's lies, believing the "Banished" go to a better place. Finding Jack alive shatters Harry’s worldview. Harry makes a split-second decision to save Jack, abandoning his safe life to go on the run.
Jack and Harry 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.