Twenty-three-year-old August moves to New York City to finish college, cynical and emotionally guarded. She moves into a Flatbush apartment with an eccentric found family: Niko (a trans psychic with genuinely accurate powers), his artist girlfriend Myla, and Wes (a tattoo artist). August works at a 24-hour pancake diner and plans to keep her life closed off and transient. Then she meets Jane on the Q subway line. Jane is dazzling, charming, and impossibly magnetic—a punk rocker in a leather jacket. August becomes smitten. But there’s a problem: Jane is literally trapped on the subway, displaced in time from the 1970s with no memory of how she got there or how to escape. Over nine months, August and Jane fall deeply in love while investigating Jane’s mysterious condition. August works to uncover the event that trapped Jane and find a way to free her.