HERE: the Bay Area, San Francisco suburb. NOW: the end of the 1970s. The single “Now and Then” has already been written—“Now and then.” “If I go through this, it’ll be only because of you,” John Lennon sings.
THEN: the year 2142. A secret organization handles time crime—the Bureau of Temporal Deformation. Kin Stewart is an ordinary family man: he works in information technology, tries to save his marriage, and build better relations with his teenage daughter.
But how unlike his current life is compared to his former one—the life of a BTD operative! Stuck in the twentieth century after a failed mission, Kin keeps his “past” hidden from everyone until one day a future evacuer arrives.
Kin has to return to the year 2142, where he was absent for only a few weeks—and where he is waiting for a fiancée he can’t remember. But the consequences of this time jump could endanger his daughter’s life and the very course of history…