A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.

In present-day Western Sydney, a devoted carer struggles with his own limitations while caring for his brother with Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, as news of a family tragedy tied to Middle Eastern conflict tests their bond.

Kathy is on a camping trip when she finds a bamboo boat belonging to Mek, a scientist who has discovered a way of travelling between parallel worlds. Kathy meddles with the controls, sending herself and Mek to the world of Spellbinders.