A beautiful biologist and her uptight physicist husband are kidnapped by elemental memes – godlike beings – and are caught in a struggle to save or destroy the universe. For they hold the key to controlling Quintessence, the mysterious force that’s tearing the cosmos apart. Forget the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – this is a wild Uber ride through the universe

SYNOPSIS:

Joanie Michelle is a brilliant bio-physicist recovering from a terrible tragedy. Her husband, Grayden Gnash, has mysteriously disappeared, swept away by a freak waterspout on the Thames River and presumed dead. As therapy, Joanie perfects her terra-form jump start technology that could potentially turns planets like Mars into new Edens. But it’s useless without Grayden’s Dark Energy Power Generator technology, which he was on the brink of perfecting when he disappeared. Undaunted, Joanie, helped by her caregivers Edward and Iris, transforms the grounds of her recovery house into a giant terra-form matrix on a small scale. She flips the switch. It works! If only Grayden were here to see it…

This is where things get really weird. Out of the matrix, a naked form arises. He introduces himself as Marty and offers to take Joanie to see Grayden. Just on time because that waterspout that took her husband has returned and is threatening to scoop Joanie up too.

Marty takes Joanie on the ride of her life. Forget the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – this is an Uber Ride through the Universe. Joanie soon learns that Marty (and even Edward and Iris) aren’t what they seem to be. They’re actually Memes – godlike powers rooted in the central drives and ideas that power all life in the universe. Marty and another meme, Timl, are locked in a struggle to control Quintessence, the mysterious force that’s driving the acceleration of the universe. Joanie and Grayden’s technologies hold the key to either slowing things down or accelerating them past the point of no return. And as they say in Highlander, “only one can win!”

Joanie and Grayden have to somehow negotiate their way through an inter-stellar game where the stakes are the future of the cosmos, no biggee. One misstep and not even the Biggest Meme of them all (God, for lack of a better word, who strongly resembles Keith Richards) won’t be able to help them. Be prepared to sing along with the music of the spheres as this off-beat sci-fi fantasy feature takes you to the stars and beyond. Quintessence is written by Don Hauka.