Tom Barren lives in the 2016 that people in the 1950s imagined we would have - a version of our world where technology has solved all of humanity's problems. Tom can't seem to find his place in this perfect utopia and feels like a constant disappointment to his brilliant but distant father. When the girl of his dreams turns his life upside down, Tom does what you do when you are heartbroken and have a time machine. Something stupid. In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our messy, very real 2016. He is desperate to fix his mistake and return to the 2016 he knows with its moving sidewalks and flying cars until he discovers unexpected versions of his family, his career and the woman who might just be the love of his life. Caught between his sense of responsibility to a utopian world and the unpredictable surporses of our complex, messy reality, Tom must make an impossible choice. His search for the answer takes him across continents and timelines in a quest to figure out who he really is and what his future - our fuutre - is supposed to be.