Ella and Helena find themselves in spirit form under a bridge during near-death experiences from food poisoning, where they witness a suicidal overdose attempt by Jenna, a former classmate struggling with severe drug addiction. After recovering from their comas, Ella feels compelled to help save Jenna despite the enormous challenges of addiction recovery, leading to a coordinated intervention effort involving her family's resources and professional support team.
Three teenage girls with psychic abilities join a military expedition to investigate strange anomalies in the Pacific, where they conduct aerial reconnaissance from an aircraft carrier and encounter a living UFO that one of the girls recognizes from her extraordinary past. During their debriefing, it's revealed that one team member is a human-alien hybrid who was raised on a UFO, another is a time traveler from millions of years in the future, and their psychic visions uncovered evidence that nuclear testing in the 1940s accidentally destroyed alien facilities existing in parallel time dimensions.
A group of teenage girls encounters Jenna, a former classmate who is struggling with addiction and participating in a flawed government recovery program that provides housing and prescription drugs while allowing her to continue using street drugs. During their visit to Jenna's apartment, the girls discover the harsh realities of her situation and grapple with feelings of compassion, concern, and helplessness as they witness her ongoing battle with substance abuse despite being in treatment.
During winter break, fifteen-year-old Ella and her close-knit group of friends are reluctantly preparing to return to school when they're unexpectedly recruited by Admiral Rodriguez for a military briefing about mysterious alien craft. At the meeting, the girls use their psychic abilities to identify and expose a military officer as a serial rapist who had previously assaulted their friend Margaret, leading to his arrest before they provide insights about the interdimensional nature of the craft in question.
Four teenage girls walking home from school encounter a homeless man who reveals himself to be an anthropologist studying homelessness by living among the community, and he leads them into a hidden forest encampment to educate them about the `throwaway people` of society. The girls, who are part of a Navy-sponsored program studying cultural survival, discover parallels between the camp's parasitic economy and indigenous communities, while the psychic member of their group senses the research may be crucial for an impending societal collapse.
Ella experiences a vivid dream where mysterious entities called `The Visitors` download information directly into her mind, showing her coordinates of future vault locations around the world, some with massive doors built into mountainsides. When she shares this experience with Navy Commander Beaker and Melanie, they realize she may have received intelligence about which government continuity sites will survive an upcoming conflict and which will be destroyed, suggesting she's being prepared for a massive future project to preserve human culture and technology.
A Navy commander recruits teenagers through a secret program to develop a `Continuity of Culture` plan for preserving human civilization and technology after a potential global catastrophe, since government officials are too focused on political infighting to address the threat. When the teens propose a science fair project to begin introducing these survival concepts to the public, they secretly enlist help from a local UFO enthusiast group, creating an unlikely alliance of military personnel, psychic teenagers, and civilian experts working to prepare humanity for what may be an inevitable extinction-level event.
Roxana receives a vivid dream vision from three ethereal beings claiming to be Wisdom, Prudence, and Knowledge, who tell her she has been chosen for a difficult task and will be able to call upon them for help. The vision deeply troubles Roxana because it conflicts with her Catholic beliefs about divine beings, leading to discussions with her friends and a government psychologist about the challenges of reconciling different religious belief systems without compromising one's core faith.
In this story, Ella encounters two mysterious beings named Kaguya and Joshua in a dream-like vision, who reveal they are from thousands of years in the future and were responsible for ensuring her best friend Helana would be present to help her with an important task ahead. The next morning, Ella discovers that Helana has long believed in Kaguya as a legendary figure, and Helana explains that both Ella and Kaguya are destined to be post-apocalyptic heroes who will guide humanity through extinction-level events.
Eileen experiences PTSD after having to shoot someone, leading to a chance encounter with Pastor John, a psychologist and pastor who wants to understand how to help troubled youth like their friend Jenna. Over pizza, Pastor John explains his theory that karma operates through the bicameral brain as an internal mechanism of conscience rather than external divine punishment, while the girls grapple with concepts of forgiveness, justice, and spiritual growth in light of their traumatic experiences.