When Tucker Harding, a writer of hard-boiled fiction, steps out to buy coffee one day in 1953, she finds herself mysteriously transported to 1997. Wandering dazed and time-confused through New York's East Village, she collides with Drew a jaded woman with blossoming self-destructive urges. Unable to write even a proper suicide note, Drew is desperately trying to locate where her car is parked so she can escape the city. By evening, her own life has taken a series of twists more bizarre than any she could have written.