The world's brightest minds set out to decipher the drum. Historians look to the past, searching archives and ancient tomes, while futurists hope technology holds the key. Governments spend billions of dollars, companies spend trillions, all in an effort to understand what this sound could be, and what it's trying to communicate. But they fail at every turn. And then, in a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere, a young man listens. His name is Lucas. The drum, that beat, it speaks to Lucas, and reveals to him its secret. Hidden in the sound is a blueprint, from elsewhere, across the universe, perhaps? Lucas, wanting more from the life he was born into, a life without a future, he decides to follow these intergalactic instructions. But instructions for what? Lucas doesn't know what he's building, just that he must build it. So he gets to work, using spare parts from around the house, synthetic materials he orders online, anything he can get his hands on, to cobble together something. Stacking pieces atop each other, shapes evolve, a form becomes refined. Lucas has often felt like Dr. Frankenstein, a mad doctor, creating his own electronic gadgets, designing his own apps, an inventor with an artist's touch. Lucas always had a gift, but his parents and his classmates never saw it that way. They just thought of him as an outsider, kind and likable, but someone who never really fit into their world.