Sixteen-year-old John has never left Florida. In fact, he’s never traveled past Longboard Key, the small aging island of his birth. Suddenly, everything changes when he finds an odd wristwatch that begins to uncontrollably teleport him from the island each day at 3:14 P.M. He might appear anywhere--a burning African desert, a Canadian forest, even a Sibern gulag--and when two mysterious men begin pursuing him, he must do what he can to survive until 3:14 A.M. when the watch takes him home. Things soon become even more complicated when the watch’s inventor, a scientist cryptically trapped deep underground, makes contact through a hologram in the watch’s face. After the man explains that using the watch will eventually kill him, John must make an impossible choice: continue to risk his life teleporting across the globe, or change the watch’s hands and switch places with the scientist underground, thereby risking his freedom forever.