In 2281, Earth experiences a 0.0003-second jolt that nobody notices—except those it changes forever.
Dray Sebin, a washed-up physicist whose career was destroyed for predicting "inertial anomalies," discovers he's now living proof of his own ridiculed theories. He can defy gravity, ignore momentum, and move without physical consequence. He's not alone—one in 10,000 people worldwide have become "Inerts," walking violations of Newton's laws.
As Dray builds a ragtag resistance against the authoritarian Motion Purity Commission, he uncovers a terrifying truth: the "Bloom" wasn't an accident but a cosmic correction. Something has been deliberately increasing inertia throughout the solar system—a change that would eventually freeze all motion in the universe.
Led by the enigmatic Director Halrix Venn, who isn't entirely human, the MPC isn't trying to cure Inerts—they're trying to stop the universe from curing itself. Venn and her "Harbingers" worship stillness as perfection and have engineered a device to force an instantaneous freeze across the planet.