An ordinary day at school changes quickly for Kris and his brother, Erik. It's early dismissal on December 22nd, 2000. The excitement of Christmas and ten days off from school is seen on the faces of every girl and boy as they rush out of school making plans for the afternoon. For Kris and Erik, that joy ends suddenly when they're transported back to another time, another place and what seems like another world. They find themselves hiding and shivering in the trunk of a dark, musty, cellar beneath a cold-water tenement. Here they meet a poor boy named Stomper who lives in this tenement...