The year is 1746, and Ethan Caplin, lost and confused, is taken in by a farming family. They're kind to him, and he meets a girl who will change his life, but Ethan is ill at ease. Because he woke up in the twenty-first century, and he has no idea how he's ended up in the eighteenth. He came here through a door, but the door is now guarded and boarded up. He doesn't know whether it'll still take him home even if he somehow gets through it. And the longer he stays here, the more danger he's in...