Doctor Sidella Solston is a professor of archaeology using gadgetry to tinker with the multiverse. She flees a world that feels too painful with a cobbled-together portal device. The portal is just being finalized as she ponders where to go and what to tell her current girlfriend, Bridget. However, her misuse of university resources is discovered, and she is rushed to jump or lose her research. She winds up on a planetoid-junkyard between universes: SyncPoint.