Physicist George Norwell has always wanted to experiment with time travel. Funded by the government, the supersecret black holes he has created are potentially too dangerous to hand over to any government. So he "borrows" them. Successfully making a random trip into the past, Norwell cautiously expects to create no disturbance in the timestream. An unavoidable cascade of entanglements puts his faith and humanity on the line. Joined by friends, risks are undertaken to rescue an innocent woman from certain death. But a high price is to be paid in the form of angry villagers, domestic and international spies, and an unexpected galactic threat. No good deed shall go unpunished.