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Every seventeen years, cicadas rise from the earth in perfect rhythm. But this time, they come early — and they’re not just making noise. Hidden inside their song is a signal… one humanity was never meant to hear.

When a teenage boy begins hearing voices in the swarm, a scientist decodes impossible patterns, and a blind sound engineer makes first contact, the truth emerges: the cicadas are alien instruments, and Earth has been broadcasting to the universe for centuries without realizing it.

Now the signal has been answered.

As society fractures between those who embrace the song and those who fear it, humanity must decide whether to speak to the stars — or remain forever silent.

Because first contact isn’t coming from the sky.

It’s rising from the ground.

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