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.