Flora is a flaky Beverly Hills pet groomer who hires ‘people finder’ Malcolm to track down her long-lost and beloved Uncle Carlos, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances after apparently being involved in shady teleportation experiments. Jocelyn and Hamish are scientists – colleagues on the surface, rivals beneath – involved in a research project at the cutting edge of quantum physics. Teleportation of a living entity may be their goal, but the fundamental question of whether feelings, emotions and memories are also teleported, and therefore what makes up a unique individual, remain unanswered.

As they pursue their own paths, both couples come to realise that their lives are more entangled than the USS Eldridge and one of her crew after the Philadelphia Experiment.