Not far from Geneva, the city of atomic physics, diplomacy, and watches, lie the underground facilities of the CERN research center. On a sunny August day, when a group of visitors emerges back into the daylight, Switzerland, indeed all of Europe, has fallen into a Sleeping Beauty slumber. The 70 people suddenly move as if captured in a photograph of the world taken at 12:47 and 42 seconds. What has happened? Has the particle accelerator caused a time catastrophe? And will the group be trapped in this moment for all eternity? "42" is a grand thriller about the search for time, where physics and poetry form a unique connection.