Anna McFly has felt distant from her depressed, alcoholic mother, Elsa, for the past few years. It's 2015 and she's a high school senior; she's willing to let that go and focus on her future with her band - and her friend-and-maybe-more, Jennifer Punzel. Until crazy old Doc Pabbie ropes her into a science experiment. What will she do when she travels back in time to 1985 and sees just how different Elsa was thirty years ago?