Joan Walker is a bored insurance clerk. A strange looking decanter, purchased from a curio shop in a small New England town catapults her through time to medieval England, where she meets Edward, a British nobleman and the man of her dreams. She wants to stay with him but realizes that in doing so she is risking her sanity and her life. Slipping back and forth over centuries, she tries to unravel the mystery of the decanter and find a way of living the fantasy that is becoming all too real . . .