Thursday, April 12, 2012
Bad enough that 16-year-old Sophie's mother has been killed by a texting driver. Just when Sophie thinks it can't get any worse, it does. She's forced to move to Massachusetts and live with her eccentric aunt, a chronic hoarder who spends her days perusing the town dump for items she can sell on eBay. Sophie's only means of keeping herself clean includes a shower that spews wastewater and a washing machine that hasn't worked in years. Arriving at Hingham High on her first day of school with greasy hair and wearing stained clothing, Sophie's immediately targeted as bully-bait for a clan of popular girls known as The Wicked Cools.
A hallway collision with Luc, another new student, changes everything. Luc and Sophie quickly become more than friends and begin hanging out with a group of social outliers who meet regularly in Suicide Garden, a walled-off area between school hallways where the young visionary architect of the school is rumored to have killed himself nearly 50 years earlier.
But the bullying escalates. During a field trip to a nuclear facility, a fight erupts between Luc and Chad, a football player who makes a comment about Sophie's lack of hygiene. The scuffle takes Luc, Sophie, and Chad into a high-security part of the facility. Soon after, Chad disintegrates in the back seat of a police cruiser. He's found dead days later, considerably older and killed by a bullet containing a metal alloy yet to be invented. With increasing alarm, Sophie and Luc realize that the field trip incident has somehow made it possible for them to move through time.
As they watch each other intermittently disintegrate into the past and future they discover that, by 2065, corporate abuse and greed have decimated the planet and left millions of survivors slowly starving to death. Sophie begins a long journey to meet her and Luc's grown daughter, a
woman who's harnessed the power of time travel to transport clean soil and water and build a sustainable new world order. And when Luc stumbles upon a grainy photograph of the young architect taken during the 1962 high school dedication ceremony, he sees that the face of the man staring back at him from across the decades is hauntingly familiar. Because it happens to be his own.
A hallway collision with Luc, another new student, changes everything. Luc and Sophie quickly become more than friends and begin hanging out with a group of social outliers who meet regularly in Suicide Garden, a walled-off area between school hallways where the young visionary architect of the school is rumored to have killed himself nearly 50 years earlier.
But the bullying escalates. During a field trip to a nuclear facility, a fight erupts between Luc and Chad, a football player who makes a comment about Sophie's lack of hygiene. The scuffle takes Luc, Sophie, and Chad into a high-security part of the facility. Soon after, Chad disintegrates in the back seat of a police cruiser. He's found dead days later, considerably older and killed by a bullet containing a metal alloy yet to be invented. With increasing alarm, Sophie and Luc realize that the field trip incident has somehow made it possible for them to move through time.
As they watch each other intermittently disintegrate into the past and future they discover that, by 2065, corporate abuse and greed have decimated the planet and left millions of survivors slowly starving to death. Sophie begins a long journey to meet her and Luc's grown daughter, a
woman who's harnessed the power of time travel to transport clean soil and water and build a sustainable new world order. And when Luc stumbles upon a grainy photograph of the young architect taken during the 1962 high school dedication ceremony, he sees that the face of the man staring back at him from across the decades is hauntingly familiar. Because it happens to be his own.
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