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Time Capsule Synopsis Time Capsule is the first-person narratives of four teenagers, each telling their own unique story amidst the backdrop of some of the most challenging and influential eras in human history. The link that holds them together is the Holy Grail, the �Cup of Christ� that was used by Jesus during the Last Supper. We witness the fledgling start of Christianity in Jerusalem as told by Rachel, the daughter of a high priest who helps defend her friends and family during the Roman invasion of 70AD that leveled the city. Saving the beloved Holy Grail from Roman hands, she spirits it away to a hiding place in the Garden of Gethsemane, the very place Jesus died on the Cross forty years earlier. Her story takes a personal turn when her beloved soul mate, Isaac, is killed in battle, and she takes responsibility for the Cup he had been protecting. Rachel's story ends after a daring escape from the besieged city, and the preservation of the Cup, her own fate lost to the annals of history.