For Ben Stryker the past represents an overwhelming mass of guilt, pain, and heartache. It has also become an obsession. The death of his wife and two young daughters has pushed him to the edge of his own reasoning. As a mechanical engineer, Ben is willing to try anything to change the outcome of the incident that robbed him of his family. He is prepared to grasp even at the near impossible, if only to put an end to his grief. However, things turn dangerous when his former boss, Joe Murphy, a brutish and violent man on the brink of his own sanity, blames Ben for his misfortunes and vows revenge. It will take all of his courage, all of his strength–that steel within–to survive the present and return to the past.