It is 2006 and yet teenager Lauren Campbell lives in a world where mobile phones, computers and DVD's do not exist. They have not been invented yet. Her scientist father creates a worm hole in his laboratory, a swirling, powerful vortex that creates a gateway to another parallel world. Lauren is accidentally sucked into this vortex, and finds herself in our world, a world that is forty years ahead of her own. How will she survive in this strange new universe, and more importantly, how will she return home?