After Kenny Huldorf's family moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, into a 1789 row house, Kenny meets the ghost of Caleb, a 16-year-old slave, who is haunting the house. According to records from the period, Caleb killed himself in the little attic room in Kenny's house. But Caleb says otherwise and asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders. Kenny's involvement in this centuries-old mystery could leave him trapped in the past forever.