The year is 2068, and certain confidential files from the European Commission have been declassified and released to the public. One of these is the file on Project Disintegration, a controversial initiative that spanned the early decades of the 21st century; as part of a two-speed Europe initiative, certain countries, particularly those on the peripheries of Europe, were encouraged to appropriate the culture of neighbouring continents. In an elaborate process of systematic narrative-spinning and the rewriting of particular histories, the small Mediterranean island of Malta was used as a test-case in the initiative.​