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Change the past, Save the future. Four high school friends are able to do two things no one else on the planet can do... talk with dead people and time travel to the past. For Kelly, it's a major adjustment to move from the only life she has ever known in Texas to live with her aunt in Ft. Myers Beach, Florida. She quickly makes friends with her quirky next door neighbor, Scott and his best friend, Austin. In her aunt's garage, they find a long-lost invention of Thomas Edison called "The Telephone to the Dead." Edison had abandoned the project and given it to Kelly's great-great-grandfather who had worked for Edison. Scott tinkers with it until they can hear sounds coming from it. But instead of broadcasting music... it picks up conversations from the dead. As they slowly turn the dial they hear hundreds of sad, lonely voices of souls that have passed but apparently never moved on, pleading for help. A teenager's voice separates from the rest and begs for their help to clear her reputation. They are shocked to find out that she had gone to their own high school... 47 years ago. They research the girl's story and discover that her name was Wendy and she had been a popular cheerleader who had apparently committed suicide. The teens are touched by Wendy's cries and pleas, but they have no way to go back in time to help her. That is, until Scott reveals an invention of his own... a time travel app. Kelly and Austin are very skeptical. Even Scott isn't sure it will work, so they try it out on his sister's pet turtle. Amazingly, the turtle disappears. But did it travel to the past or just wander off? Finally, they decide to humor Scott and go along with his claims of time travel. They meet on the beach after everyone else has gone home. They stand in the formation Scott insists will create the perfect vortex for time travel. At the last moment, a fourth person (Zoey, a popular, pretty cheerleader who is hot for Austin) runs forward and is accidentally pulled i