Jack is a loner confined to a workbench in the back of an antique shop. When a mysterious woman presents him with a broken antique clock that is not to be fixed, unexplainable events begin to occur. After finding Albert Einstein's journal on his still unsolved Unified Field Theory, Jack becomes obsessed with analyzing time and theorizing its connection to his supernatural experiences.

A man lamenting his late love Lenore is tormented by the noises made by a raven, which he imagines is mocking his grief, illustrating a dramatic reading of Poe's poem.