
The cash they have been given doesn't work in this time because all transactions are made using hand-print technology. Instead of travelling ten years into the future as agreed, they travel thirty years. Each of them have some special talent or skill which will be of use in the future. The team consists of four foster children and one teen from a regular home, Adam.

So when Aether Corporation, approaches her to take part in a day of research in return for which they will pay her an enormous sum of money Elena signs up despite misgivings only to discover that she and four other teens are engaged to time travel ten years into the future. Elena is a young foster child with tattoos and anger management issues and perfect recall, her mother is dead and her father is in prison for murder. As a foster child she will be 'aged out' of the foster care system and forced to make her own way.

Elena is just two months shy of her eighteenth birthday but that is not a time she is necessarily looking forward to.
