About Manifest
Manifest opens as Montego Air Flight 828 hits brief but violent turbulence on a routine trip from Jamaica to New York. The plane lands safely, but on the tarmac the passengers and crew learn that five and a half years have vanished. For everyone aboard the flight felt like a single afternoon, yet the world has moved on without them, families have grieved and rebuilt, and the returnees are suddenly treated as miracles, anomalies and, increasingly, as threats.
At the heart of the story are the Stones. Ben Stone, a methodical professor, returns to a wife and a daughter who have aged while his young son Cal stayed the same age. His sister Michaela, an NYPD detective, comes back to find the man she loved has married her best friend. Soon the 828 passengers begin hearing and seeing guiding visions known as 'Callings' that compel them to act, save strangers and uncover a larger pattern none of them fully understands.
As the seasons unfold the mystery deepens around a looming 'Death Date' that appears to threaten every returnee, the formation of a passenger community called the Lifeboat, and the idea that they must rise or fall together. Blending grounded family drama with science, faith and the supernatural, Manifest builds toward a final reckoning over whether the passengers can change their fate.