Kal may seem like an ordinary teenager- he goes to school, loves (and gets annoyed by) his little brother, and works part time at the local burger joint-but Kal is anything but.

After the death of their mother, Kal and his little brother Rocko find themselves with a successful but absent father. Kal tends to lose himself to history, recalling the stories his historian grandfather would tell and watching shows on the History Channel. Yet Kal's life is about to be turned upside down with the appearance of a strange figure at work, ending in Kal finding himself in a hospital bed and the Floppy Burger blown to pieces.

Kal, Rocko, and Kal's friends Max and Emily are met by Renier, a friend of Kal's father, and taken home after another mysterious attack on his life, and when Rocko begins to lose consciousness and recites words strange and unknown, all five find themselves in a completely new world, and the secrets their father held on to so tightly begin to unravel.