The year is 2043 and Brice Taylor and Kevin Tang are best friends and sophomores in high school. That friendship is put to a major test when a mysterious antique Nikon camera sucks them both into a vortex that swirls with time travel, the kidnapping of a beautiful girl, drug dealers, and a struggle to survive in a whole new world. The adventure begins when Kevin discovers undeveloped 35-millimeter film in a camera purchased by Brice as a prop for a Halloween costume. Kevin insists on having the film developed and is struck by the beauty of the girl whose picture is on the film. Brice remains completely uninterested until the camera seems to take on a life of its own by revealing in a series of new images on the film that the girl has been kidnapped. Brice's desire to rescue her immerses the pair in a plot that takes them 30 years into the past and halfway across the country. They face packs of wild dogs, hunger, sleepless nights, kidnappers, and drug dealers while trying to find the mysterious girl before it is too late.