Tori lives in 2020 and her parents are getting divorced. Bobby lives in 1980 and his family is about to fall apart. But when Tori finds herself stranded in 1980, the two must join forces and prevent a crime that might destroy everyone they care about. Simultaneously home and not home, Tori finds herself in a gritty New York just beginning to claw its way out of bankruptcy. Pollution and crime are rampant; graffiti is everywhere; cell phones and the Internet don't exist. Can two teenagers stop the jewelry theft of the decade? Will Tori ever get back to her own time? And how will Bobby react when she tells him that she's an accidental time-traveler-and his daughter?