After the Great Battle (Mankind calls the Big Bang) between the Prince of Darkness, Lord Set, and the Lord of Light, the Universe is left fragmented, and those beings on these different islands in space come together with Ult to discuss their fears and concerns about the changing strange skies and disturbing behaviour of the Billowings, violent storms in outer space. There is no eternal life, and the Fragmentarians are dissipating before their time with no new life being formed. All become silent when they are visited by the great Crystal, who offers them eternal life and demonstrates the process and its meaning. Many take eternal life, but some refuse through fear. It is the fear of eternity which is the subject of much debate within the play.

In a primary school classroom, the headteacher and the teacher’s assistant are preparing for the beginning of a new school year when two police detectives arrive and ask the headteacher to listen to a voice recording. Thirty years before, Dalia is a ten-year-old child who regresses to a previous life on Atlantis, where the children are offered a very different method of teaching. She describes this to her teacher, Mrs Simpson, who quickly appreciates the value of Dalia’s knowledge and adopts some of this approach in her teaching. Mrs Simpson is then sacked for not following the curriculum guidelines, even though the education system needs a desperate revision and revolution. Thirty years later, the two work together as teachers with good results in spite of the struggle they have battling against the system and the envy of others, which eventually leads to fatal consequences, which then involve the police once again from Act 1.