14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building's elevator. As altered by a retired physicist living in her building, it transports her from Philadelphia of 1998 back to the same place in 1881. There she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Gradually discovering the power of her time machine, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother Robert travel back and forth in time and succeed in changing both the past and the future.

这是发生在十九世纪的故事。流浪孩子奈特（迈克尔•卡洛兹Michael Caloz 饰）万万没有想到，自己会被好心人收养，并且去到正规学校接受教育。老师们循循善诱，旁人也对他关怀有加，令他渐渐走上了成长的正道，改掉以往生活的种种陋习。
同是流浪儿童的好友戴恩（本•柯克Ben Cook）前来学校找到了奈特，尽管众人都不大同意将这个难管教的少年收留进学校，老师还是让他得到教育机会。但是教育的情况却没有奈特来得顺利，戴恩顽皮叛逆的天性，给老师学生都带来了诸多麻烦。结果，戴恩被送出学校，重新面对着命运令人窒息的漩涡，他似乎被世界所遗弃，继续孤单的承受着生活之痛。然而，是未灭的博爱之光，育人之德，让戴恩的命运又一次有了转机。

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.