Accidentally 'sampled' while on a night out with his girlfriend, Michael's unexpected arrival 272 years in the future is a surprise for everyone, not least the scientists involved. Quickly forgotten about by an indifferent world, he has to make a new life in a new time, but trying to start again is more difficult than it seems. He soon finds himself out of sync with a world where technology has become so ubiquitous that no-one really knows or cares how anything works, and when things start to go wrong, it seems that only a man from the past can save the future.