Jubie Walker is not a normal fifteen-year-old-boy. He loves to read about history, listen to big-band music, and doesn't seem to connect with any of his classmates. He also has the strange dreams... Though he fights to stay awake, Jubie finds himself nearly nightly in a place filled with shadows and unexplained wonders. It's somehow 1942, and American soldiers are fighting the Japanese in World War II. Someone, or something, has attached itself...