Evan Treborn has lost track of time. From
an early age, crucial moments of his life have disappeared into a black
hole of forgetting, his boyhood marred by a series of terrifying events
he canâ??t remember. What remains is the ghost of memory and the broken
lives around him--the lives of his childhood friends, Kayleigh, Lenny
and Tommy. Throughout his childhood, Evan was under the care of a
psychologist who encouraged him to keep a journal, detailing the events
of his day-to-day life. Now in college, Evan reads from one of his
journals and finds himself thrust suddenly, inexplicably back in time.
He comes to realize that the notebooks he keeps under his bed are a
vehicle by which he can return to the past and reclaim his memories.
But these recollections only leave Evan feeling responsible for the
damaged lives of his friends, most crucially that of Kayleigh, his
childhood sweetheart who he continued to love into adulthood.Determined
to do something now that he was incapable of doing then, Evan purposely
travels back in time, his present-day mind occupying his childhood
body, in an attempt to re-write history and spare his friends and loved
ones these traumatic experiences.
