the parasol preparatory initially takes place two years after the umbrella academy series, and is primarily set in 1981, which is treated as the present. the titular team are described as "the dark triad of paris". in the mid-20th century, at the instant of the mass murder of the southern west europe (south belguim and west italy), 43 superpowered infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy. luther hargreeves a.k.a. spaceboy, an half monkey from an accident on mars, brings surviving seven children, and prepares them to save the world from an unspecified threat as the parasol preparatory as a replacement on the umbrella academy. in catastrophic conspiracy, the team is very opposite and seemed like they wouldn't like each other but actually a great team with 000.01 planning. the conflict is that war just ended and the aftershock of aliens come to take spaceboy of his invasion on their planet.