Character Relationship Map: Space/Time

Characters

• Liv (played by Ashlee Lollback) — protagonist

  Liv works with Holt and the research team at the isolated Reiko Facility to develop an engine intended to address Earth's agricultural and environmental crisis. After the lockdown, collapse, deaths, a...

• Holt (played by Hugh Parker) — supporting

  Holt is Liv's colleague and the central driving force behind the engine project. Badly injured during the facility collapse, he still insists that the experiment must continue. He explains its time-tr...

• Harris (played by Pacharo Mzembe) — supporting

  Harris is connected to the Caliver operation alongside Holt, Liv, Renault, Gordo, and Paige. Although the plot provides no separate personal storyline for him, he is part of the team struggling to kee...

• Renault (played by Haroon Jafarey-Hall) — supporting

  Renault is a member of the engine project who oversees its demanding schedule while the team works through repeated technical failures. Near the end, Holt searches for Renault during another time jump...

• Gordo (played by Shaun King) — supporting

  Gordo is part of the technical team working with Holt, Liv, Renault, Harris, and Paige on the Caliver experiment. When replacement equipment is needed after technical failures, he helps obtain it. Dur...

• Thanner (played by Erin Connor) — supporting

  Thanner is part of the group present at the Reiko Facility when the visiting team arrives and the facility enters lockdown. During the resulting sabotage and collapse, Thanner vanishes along with Mari...

• Paige (played by Sophia Emberson-Bain) — supporting

  Paige is connected to the Caliver operation with Holt, Liv, Harris, Renault, and Gordo. The team struggles to make the machinery stable enough to function while dealing with blown inhibitors, surge-sh...

• Innis (played by Rob Horton) — supporting

  Innis is associated with the engine facility and remains connected to the experiment's final crisis. During Holt's last attempted jump through the engine's third gear, Holt searches for Innis along wi...

Canonical Relationships

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

• Holt → Renault (Professional Operational Colleague) — They occupy different operational roles within the same research project.

  Renault oversees the project's demanding schedule while Holt continues advocating for the engine experiment.

• Liv → Holt (Professional Colleague) — They are research colleagues working on the same engine project.

  Liv and Holt work together with a team at the Reiko Facility to develop the agricultural engine.

Story Dynamics

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

• Liv → Thanner (Social Facility Associate) — They are connected through the same facility disaster, although no closer relationship is specified.

  Thanner is among the people who vanish after the visiting team arrives and the facility enters lockdown, while Liv remains at the facility and calls f...

• Holt → Innis (Narrative Search Target) — Innis becomes one of the people Holt seeks during the final time experiment.

  In the final moments, Holt moves through the engine's third gear while searching for Renault, Gordo, and Innis.

• Holt → Gordo (Alliance Project Teammate) — Their actions contribute to keeping the same experiment alive.

  Gordo helps obtain replacement equipment during the engine tests, while Holt remains committed to continuing the project.

• Harris → Paige (Alliance Project Teammate) — Both are involved in the engine operation and its technical difficulties.

  The plot states that Harris and Paige are connected to the operation as the team works to stabilize the machinery.

• Gordo → Renault (Alliance Team Collaborator) — Their separate responsibilities support the continuation of the engine operation.

  Gordo helps obtain replacement equipment while Renault oversees the schedule during the unstable engine tests.

Story Analysis

A desperate agricultural experiment transforms a collapsing facility into a gateway to the past, threatening catastrophe while leaving history's fate uncertain.

Plot Progression

1. A World Under Pressure — The film establishes a planet overwhelmed by climate change, pollution, shortages, unrest, and violence. At the isolated Reiko Facility, Liv and Holt pursue an engine intended to transform agriculture...
2. Lockdown and Disappearance — The arrival of a visiting team triggers a facility lockdown. A relay disappears, systems are drained, people vanish, and a collapse leaves Holt badly injured while Liv calls for help.
3. The Experiment Must Continue — Holt insists that the research must continue despite the deaths and suspicious circumstances. Liv remains doubtful as the team fears an official raid and struggles with the project's moral consequence...
4. The Caliver Test — The crew primes the Caliver engine and faces blown inhibitors and surge-shield failures. Gordo obtains replacement equipment while Renault manages the demanding schedule.
5. A Door Through Time — The engine produces a phenomenon that appears to alter time. Holt explains the role of nanos in his suit and body, records a future-dated message, and warns Liv about catastrophic consequences.
6. The Unanswered Search — As the facility collapses, Holt attempts another jump through the engine's third gear. He searches for Renault, Gordo, and Innis without receiving an answer, leaving the experiment's outcome unresolve...