With Earth on the brink of total annihilation, can a new universal language unite the world enough to save it?It's 2489 and the world&8217;s governing mathematicians have calculated that society&8217;s struggles with rampant war and homicide have put humanity on a crash-course with extinction. With an estimated fifteen months left until humankind&8217;s total annihilation, the World Council of Mathematicians (WCM) determine the only way out of the crisis is to create&160;the&160;optimum language for humans, creating common understanding across all cultures and allowing them to work together for their joint salvation. &160;The WCM and Charles De Costa, a brilliant mathematics student, must rely on LIFT, a scientific breakthrough that allows them to enlist the aid of the greatest minds in history, to create this new world language based on mathematics, linguistics, and music.