After two generations of meddling with the time stream, the Divine Council has caught up with a young man and the bill is due. Guided by the Gods, Mortimer Bunson explores the dark secrets of his parents' past. The council illustrates to him the high stakes surrounding his father's venture into time travel. Back in a brutally racist time in America's history, they abducted his mother, Sandra. In a surprising turn of events, Ed, the janitor, is thrust into the past to avert a global catastrophe and becomes her savior.