A scientist experimenting with time-travel technology becomes stranded in Renaissance Italy and must evade a suspicious inquisitor, but when they return to the present day, they realize the inquisitor is their future self, creating a race against time to protect the future from their own actions.
Protagonist: A scientist experimenting with time-travel technology who becomes stranded in Renaissance Italy; Antagonist: A suspicious inquisitor who sees the protagonist's knowledge as a threat to the established order and seeks to capture and silence them.
The escalating cat-and-mouse game between the protagonist and the inquisitor, as the protagonist tries to evade capture and the inquisitor becomes increasingly determined to stop them from disrupting the established order with their knowledge of the future.
As the inquisitor closes in on the protagonist, the scientist manages to activate the time-travel device and return to the present day. However, as they reappear in their own time, they realize that the inquisitor has followed them, creating a new threat in the modern world. The scientist must now find a way to outsmart their pursuer in a race against time to protect the future from the inquisitor's meddling.
Twist: The inquisitor, having followed the protagonist to the present day, is actually a future version of the scientist, who traveled back in time to stop their past self from altering history and causing catastrophic consequences. Now, the scientist must confront their own future self and find a way to resolve the conflict without destroying the fabric of time.