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.
