As northwestern anthropologist professor Wyatt Ellis attempts to be a dutiful husband taking the garbage out, he finds himself in a different time, the future, only to be met by a woman who claims to be his wife. Wyatt realizes that he is actually the leader of a political think tank gathering intel about humanity. The professor is left to navigate this new normal, traveling with his team of time travelers to seek out the age-old secret of how to prevent inhumane moments in time.