After a few stops along the best way, Hartdegen arrives 800,000 years in the future to find that civilization has devolved to a hunter-gatherer way of life. Calling themselves the Eloi, the survivors of mankind have constructed their houses into the aspect of a cliff on what resembles Manhattan. Falling in love with an Eloi girl referred to as Mara, Hartdegan discovers that the Eloi are hunted for food by a race of subterranean creatures known as Morlocks and he’s compelled to make use of his scientific data and his time travel capabilities to avoid wasting the Eloi.