Character Relationship Map: Project Almanac

Characters

• David Raskin (played by Jonny Weston) — protagonist

  A high school senior and aspiring inventor who builds a time machine with his friends. He uses it for personal gain, attempts to repair the catastrophic consequences of time travel, and ultimately pre...

• Jessie Pierce (played by Sofia Black-D'Elia) — protagonist

  David's crush who becomes involved in the time machine experiment after the group uses her car's fuel cell. She becomes David's romantic partner in an altered timeline and confronts him after discover...

• Quinn Goldberg (played by Sam Lerner) — supporting

  David's friend and a member of the time travel group. He helps test the machine, alters his science presentation, and nearly creates a feedback loop after interacting with his past self.

• Adam Le (played by Allen Evangelista) — supporting

  One of David's friends and a member of the time travel group. He participates in the experiments and is later hospitalized in a coma after a car accident in an altered timeline.

• Christina Raskin (played by Virginia Gardner) — supporting

  David's sister who helps search through their father's belongings for an invention that could earn David a scholarship. She later discovers evidence of the erased timeline with David.

• Kathy Raskin (played by Amy Landecker) — supporting

  David's mother, who faces losing the family house because of the cost of David's university tuition.

• Jessie's Girlfriend (played by Courtney Bowers) — minor
• Ben Raskin (played by Gary Weeks) — supporting

  David's deceased father and an inventor who developed blueprints for a time travel device for a government project. He recognizes David from the future and destroys the plans after learning about the...

• David, Age 7 (played by Macsen Lintz) — supporting

  David as a child, seen at his seventh birthday party in footage that helps reveal the hidden basement and the time machine plans.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Jessie's Girlfriend → Jessie Pierce (Romantic Girlfriend) — The supplied character information identifies a romantic relationship with Jessie.

  The character is identified in the supplied character list as Jessie's Girlfriend.

• David Raskin → Jessie Pierce (Romantic Interest) — David's feelings for Jessie motivate a consequential solo time jump.

  David has a crush on Jessie and travels back to Lollapalooza to change how he expresses his feelings, resulting in a future where they are a couple.

• David Raskin → David, Age 7 (Temporal Past Self) — David's final trip takes him to his own childhood.

  David travels back to his seventh birthday party, where he confronts Ben and is erased from the timeline.

• Ben Raskin → Christina Raskin (Family Father And Daughter) — Ben is Christina's father.

  Ben is identified as the father of the Raskin family, and Christina is David's sister.

• Ben Raskin → David Raskin (Family Father And Son) — Their father-son bond connects David's present-day choices to the invention's origin.

  Ben is David's father, who died on David's seventh birthday. In the past, David speaks with Ben about the dangers of the time machine.

• Kathy Raskin → Christina Raskin (Family Mother And Daughter) — They belong to the same family.

  Kathy is identified as the mother in the Raskin family, and Christina is identified as David's sister.

• Kathy Raskin → David Raskin (Family Mother And Son) — Their family's financial situation shapes David's early motivation.

  Kathy is David's mother, and the prospect of her having to sell the family home motivates David to search for a way to afford MIT.

• David Raskin → Christina Raskin (Family Brother And Sister) — Siblings who work together to investigate their father's invention.

  David enlists his sister Christina to search through their father's belongings for something that could help him earn a scholarship.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Jessie Pierce → Quinn Goldberg (Alliance Teammate) — They share membership in the time-travel group.

  Jessie is recruited into the group's time-travel experiment, which Quinn also participates in.

• Jessie Pierce → Adam Le (Alliance Teammate) — They are members of the same experiment group.

  After David's friends recruit Jessie into the experiment, she becomes part of the expanded time-travel group that includes Adam.

• Christina Raskin → Quinn Goldberg (Alliance Teammate) — They participate in the initial discovery together.

  Christina joins Quinn and the others in searching Ben's belongings and exploring the basement.

• Christina Raskin → Adam Le (Alliance Teammate) — They share involvement in the group's early investigation.

  Christina joins David, Adam, and Quinn in investigating the basement and the time-machine plans.

• Adam Le → Quinn Goldberg (Alliance Teammate) — They work together as members of the experiment group.

  Adam and Quinn participate with David in searching for the plans and testing the time machine.

• David Raskin → Quinn Goldberg (Social Friend) — Quinn is David's friend and a central member of the group.

  David and Quinn search through Ben's belongings together and conduct time-travel experiments with their friends.

• David Raskin → Adam Le (Social Friend) — Adam is one of David's friends and part of the time-travel group.

  David searches his father's belongings with Adam, and the group later agrees not to time-jump alone.

Story Analysis

A gifted teenager's attempt to use time travel for opportunity and love spirals into catastrophe, forcing him to erase the invention at its source.

Plot Progression

1. The Reflection in the Basement — David's MIT admission is overshadowed by tuition costs and the threat of losing the family home. While searching Ben's belongings with Christina and his friends, David finds footage that leads them to...
2. Power, Rules, and Second Chances — The group builds the machine and learns that even a small test can affect the world around them. They bring Jessie into the experiment, experience a dangerous encounter with Quinn's past self, and beg...
3. Love Against the Timeline — David's solo trip to Lollapalooza changes his relationship with Jessie, but the consequences of the original blackout become clear. His attempts to repair the damage lead to Adam's coma and expose Dav...
4. Erasing the Invention — After Jessie disappears in a feedback loop, David resolves to stop the time machine from ever being created. He evades the police, obtains hydrogen at school, and returns to his seventh birthday to co...
5. A Camera in the New Timeline — David's intervention erases him from the previous timeline but leaves his camera behind. In the altered present, David and Christina find the camera evidence, and David approaches Jessie with a warnin...