When Veronica's five-year-old daughter tells her that a mysterious boy appeared in her bedroom asking for help. Veronica believes it is just a dream. But she soon discovers it's very real, as she's whisked back one hundred and fifty years in time to try to prevent a crime and save a family. An eighteen-month-old child's life is at risk. A tenant, named Joe, and his family are in danger simply by knowing of the boy's existence. Veronica must struggle to uncover deeply held secrets in a different century where things move at a slower pace and much of what she knows has not yet been discovered. But time is running out... What is the true story? Can she save the child, as well as Joe and his family? And still keep her own world intact?