Young Milford Spitz and Zoe May have no relatives. They desperately want to escape poor foster care treatment, so they run away and team up with the local bully, Bobby Mang, who is also escaping from his own horrible home life. But Bobby really means business when it comes to running away. You see, he has a very fast machine that can travel in space, through dimensions and in time. Bobby wasn’t originally from Minnesota like Milford and his friend, Little Zoe May. The very fast machine (or VFM) takes them to adventures way beyond Milford’s expectations. Bobby reveals how the machine came to be, and that his father and Professor Albert Einstein crafted the machine. As it turns out, Einstein wasn’t actually from Earth - or from Bobby’s world either.
Throughout their journeys, Milford, Little Zoe May, and Bobby Mang discover an education that they could never get at the Winona Middle School back in Winona, Minnesota.