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In a prologue, kids from 1992 prepare a time capsule. The opera takes place in the year 2413, with highly regimented kids taught by an android. Their lives are changed during a rare field trip outdoors in which the time capsule is discovered. The 2413 kids are baffled by its contents, and time-traveling 1992 kids share examples of happy-dancing tennis shoes, a guitar, an umbrella, and other late-20th-century delights. The last thing in the capsule is a withered green plant. The 2413 kids are intrigued. The android insists the plant be ignored, but Amy, an inquisitive kid, secretly takes it home. The next day, the android reprimands Amy, but the kids barrage the android with questions. The opera ends with children of 1992 and 2413 united in watering the plant and bringing it back to life. The android nods in understanding, as the kids sing about the importance of loving and nurturing all things living.
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