Al shares with him that located in the very back of his storeroom is a rabbit hole that can transport Jake to September 1958.

It seems Al has changed practically overnight and is dying of cancer, despite seeming fine the last time Jake saw him. What Jake receives from Al is much more than he could ever imagine. But because we are here, let us dance.Īs luck would have it, Jake is Al’s best customer and this evening he’s taking his sadness over the janitor’s life to Al’s diner to be cheered up by some good conversation and a burger. We did not ask for this room or this music. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy.

Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Jake can’t stop himself from wanting to know how the janitor’s life would have ended up if this had never happened. The janitor’s father went crazy one Halloween night and murdered his family, leaving just him as the sole survivor equipped with a limp to remind him of the horrors every day. While grading essays for a GED course he teaches, one in particular written by the school’s janitor touches his heart. At the same time, Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in the same area of Maine is wondering about a different time in history he would like to change. In present day 2011, diner owner Al Templeton has built an obsession around the Kennedy assassination and what would have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald never got to take that fateful shot. The United States remembers Novemas the day President John F.

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