THE END IS THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING IS THE END
In a small town of Winden weird things starts to happen after the death of Michael Kahnwald. His son Jonas Kahnwald who turns to therapy after the incident finds out some dark secrets about the town.
The story revolves around four families who are Kahnwald, Nielson, Doppler and Tiedemann, who are connected to one other in a weird way. After the disappearance of Mikkel Nielson, Jonas goes on a search mission on him. This is where he discovers that he could travel in time through the cave which is connected to the power plant of the town.
The interesting part of this story is we come face to face with various characters who are revealed to be one individual. For instance, we see three variations of Jonas (The Stranger and Adam) and Martha (older Martha and Eva) who are main leads of the series. Characters like Noah and Claudia brings in suspense factor along with giving the audience the knowledge of the family history.
Initially the time travel too place in three eras which are 1954, 1987 and 2020 but later 2053 which was stated as apocalypse world and 1921 were also introduced. Along with this we find out there is another universe in existence which is Eva’s world. Adam’s world which follows Sic Mundus which is dark, Eva’s world follows Erit Lux which is light. Introduction of another character in three versions is again made who is known as The Unknow who is Adam and Eva’s son and acts as a knot between two worlds.
The prime story of world 3 takes place in the years 2019 and 2052 which is also referred as apocalypse world. Along with this storyline in 1888 is also shown to the audience.
It is revealed that the original time machine was made by H. G. Tannhaus after the death of his son, daughter in law and granddaughter. Building of this time machine lead the world to split into two parts and the original world was divided in two.
Jonas and Martha, with the help of Claudia figures out in order to stop the apocalypse to happen in both worlds they need to save Tannhaus’s family and stop him from making the time machine to bring them back. By doing so the two of them are able to break the knot and the world is never torn in two parts.
