Ted McBride is a 55-year-old university computer science professor. Bullied as a youth, Ted believes if he could return to his childhood knowing then what he knows now, his Now would be a happier place. A friend and quantum mechanics genius sends Ted back forty years in time, inside the mind of his fifteen-year-old self. With knowledge and perspective gained over a lifetime, Ted is able to see things he had not recognized in the original version and is able to alter his own future and the lives of others he is able to help.