Savitree and Kwame are an interracial Trini couple in their mid-20s. Savitree is of East Indian descent, a self-absorbed newly minted medical doctor, while Kwame is of African descent, OCD and myopic civil engineer.

 

Their three-year-old marriage is on the rocks, and trying to save face from their families who warned them not to marry, they head into the countryside on a staycation to salvage their relationship. A reluctant hike with a tour group into an unexplored cave labyrinth leads to a wrong turn, getting them lost and into a bitter argument during which Savi slips and hurts her leg. Emerging from the caves, they discover that their tour bus is no longer where they had parked. As is the trail they drove in on.

 

Hunting for their tour, they are also confused by the changed landscape. They meet a mountain village of some oddly dressed black people speaking French patois who are very puzzled by Kwame, and very hostile to Savi. Kwame understands a little patois, having heard his grandparents speaking it while he was a child, and he also sat through high school French. He is horrified to realize that these people think they just got out of slavery.

 

After Savi uses her medical skills to save a dying child, the villagers reluctantly shelter the couple for the night, warning them against going down into the valley. But the following day Savi and Kwame decide they need to find some technology to help them get home since their cell phones refuse to work. They go down the hill, but when they see the plantation for themselves they realize that they are indeed trapped in the late 1840s. Then they’re caught by the Scottish overseer.

 

Kwame is presumed to be one of the former enslaved, so he’s beaten and thrown in jail for trespassing. Savi is presumed to be one of the newly arrived indentees and gets put to work cutting cane, which she is most definitely not built for. But she catches the overseer’s eye and starts making nice with him to get out of the hard labour.

 

Kwame escapes from the jail and works his way back to the plantation, arriving just in time to prevent the overseer from raping Savi, and accidentally kills him. Forced to flee back into the mountains with hound dogs and militia in hot pursuit, Kwame and Savi re-enter the cave complex desperate to try to find their way back home. 

 

But when they finally re-emerge into the outside world Kwame gets hit in the head and is knocked cold. The last thing he hears before losing consciousness is Savi’s screams. They’ve actually gone BACK in time to the early 1500s, and walked into the middle of a raid by Spanish conquistadors on a Native village. 

 

In subsequent episodes, the couple has to successfully navigate the often dangerous political, racial, social, and economic situation of each timeframe from 1498 onwards, and get back to the cave system to try to find the correct cave that will take them back home. Each time-jump challenges their resourcefulness and skills, but also their marriage. So when they do finally make it back home in the final episode, we’re not certain that they’ll stay together.

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SEASON ONE EPISODES

 

Ep 2 — First Contact: Savi helps the Natives fight a smallpox infestation from the invading Spaniards; Kwame deduces from a Native legend that there’s a pattern in the cave system, and must figure out which tunnel will lead them back to the 21st century.

 

Ep 3 — Burning Cane: The couple is thrown into the 1881 Kamboule Riots and Kwame is badly wounded in the battle against the regiment. Savi has to hide him in barracks housing so she can nurse him back to health, but the neighbours are highly skeptical of her intentions.

 

Ep 4 — Miss Gene: The Gene Miles incident

 

Ep 5 — Massa Day Done: Arriving at the capital in the days just after the WI Federation has collapsed, Kwame and Savi get caught up in the intrigues of the pre-Independence movement.

 

Ep 6 — Jahaji: Trekking their way south to find Savi’s ancestors who might be willing to help them, the couple gets caught up in the Hosay Riots of 1884; Savi is attracted to a young Indian farmer despite the obvious class and wealth differences.

 

Ep 7 — Cedula: Kwame’s knowledge of French again helps them pass as Free Gens de Couleur when they find themselves in the middle of Trinidad's newest immigrants in 1783.

 

Ep 8 — Spleen and Ideal: Tired of negotiating the caves, Savi suggests that they remain in the post-Independence 1960s and build fantastic new lives with their knowledge of what the future holds.

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