世界存亡危在旦夕，“信条”一词是唯一的线索与武器。主人公穿梭于全球各地，开展特工活动，力求揭示“信条”之谜，并完成一项超越了真实时间的神秘任务。这项任务并非时间之旅，而是【时空逆转】。In a twilight world of international espionage, an unnamed CIA operative, known as The Protagonist, is recruited by a mysterious organization called Tenet to participate in a global assignment that unfolds beyond real time. The mission: prevent Andrei Sator, a renegade Russian oligarch with precognition abilities, from starting World War III. The Protagonist will soon master the art of "time inversion" as a way of countering the threat that is to come.