Dr. Cynthia Holloway has been haunted since childhood, when a storm stole her family and set her on a path to fight climate change. Rising through the ranks of the Environmental Protection Agency, she spearheads the radical Climate Adaptation Program—a last attempt to reorganize humanity into “Sects” built around survival strategies for a warming world.

But as governments collapse and natural disasters escalate, even adaptation proves futile. In the chaos, Cindy leads an expedition to the Arctic, where beneath the melting ice her team uncovers a secret buried for twenty-five thousand years: a vast, autonomous city called New Requiem, built by an earlier Cycle of humanity.

Inside its frozen walls, Cindy learns the shocking truth. Global warming was never humanity’s fault—it was never the real enemy. Earth itself runs on an ancient rhythm: creation, destruction, and rebirth, as each Cycle of civilization is wiped away by recurring Ice Ages. New Requiem is not salvation. It is a vault—a genetic archive designed to store a select two million souls for thirty fleeting years, until dwindling resources force a lottery of reduction. Only thirty will survive in cryostasis, to awaken centuries later in a hidden Eden and begin the Cycle again.

Cindy becomes the unwilling custodian of humanity’s endgame. She must choose who enters, who is excluded, and ultimately, who carries the seed of tomorrow. But when her own daughter is deemed genetically unfit for preservation, Cindy commits the greatest of sins: she rewrites the future with love.

As the ice tightens its grip on the planet, Cindy narrates the fall of the Fourth Cycle and the cruel rebirth of the Fifth. Her confessions are both a warning and a legacy: that even in the face of inevitability, humanity’s spirit rebels against extinction. Because the end is never the end—it’s always the beginning.

Infinite Earth: THE CYCLE is a sweeping, cinematic tale of survival, sacrifice, and the terrifying beauty of humanity’s place in the eternal rhythm of Earth.