The First

The story opens on an exuberant April morning in 1982, when a whole city erupts in song, color, and celebration. A towering rocket, dubbed the Lunar Lady, stands ready to launch humanity’s first flight to the moon, and the charismatic, leg‑less Captain George Everson commands the cheers of millions. Amid the marching bands and jubilant crowds, the atmosphere feels like a grand, hopeful carnival of progress.

But not everyone shares the optimism. Jeffrey Simon, a weather‑worn former spaceman, watches the spectacle from his modest apartment, haunted by a sense of betrayal and a lingering dream that was never his. Clutching a mysterious glowing stone and an old photograph of a forgotten launch site, he prepares to act on a desperate plan that could shatter the illusion of triumph and force the world to confront the true cost of its ambitions.