In a world of 10-13 year-old children, who all have cars, jobs, motives, fancy hats and handlebar mustaches, we meet Donohue, a detective who solves classic crimes of the jazz era, committed by a cast of dangerous bad guys.

When an experiment on an alien artefact in a futuristic high-rise building goes wrong, a motley squad of reporters, scientists, musicians and criminals must band together to survive and escape.