Jonathan Hammond is handsome, well-off, professionally sound, and desired. But he is unhappy with his life, and as fate would have it, it's about to take a turn for the worse. Today is Jonathan Hammond's birthday, October 31. And despite a large party with lots of food, drink, music, and people, he becomes a target for murder. On his birthday. The deadline for his death is midnight.

A group of high school students finds themselves in a nightmare from which they cannot escape. On an ordinary October day, they have been drugged. From this drug, they have fallen asleep. Arisen from this sleep they find themselves in a world with hardly anything they know and nothing they remember. The year they find themselves in is 1879. They are scared and frightened, and they cannot get home.

The relationship between Nick Fullwood and Johns Mayweather has always been built on favors. In high school, and now years later as adults. Nick, a newspaper journalist, needs a desperate favor from Johns, now a police officer. But this favor is so secret, so dangerous, it could cost both of them their lives. Against the dark nightlife of Los Angeles, these two friends will come face to face with the truth about their friendship, their professions, and the dark side of humanity.