H.G. Wells has just finished constructing what was his most precious dream: a time machine which would premit him to travel into the past. That same day, while looking for companions to make the first trip, he receives a request from Orson Wells, an as yet unknown playwright, asking him to attend a press conference for the purpose of the radio production of his novel "The War of the Worlds". There they become friends and decide to make the trip to the past together, to the Folies Bergere, a Paris cabaret where the famous Mata-Hari is performing. Their purpose: to prevent her being executed as a spy several days afterwards.

But destiny plays its cards in strange ways, and Orson Wells cannot make the trip, because he has just received a letter to go ahead with the filming of "Citizen Kane". The person who takes his place is an equally interesting character; an actor known as Humphrey Bogart, who prefers having this adventure to attenting the party his new wife has planned for him. When both arrive in Paris, they meet two artists who are trying to emerge from anonymity; Monet and Picasso, and among them all they fabricate a plan to rescue the beautiful Mata-Hari.

The second time travel experience is carried out by H.G. Wells in the company of Groucho Marx, a comic actor who never quite believes in the wonders of this machine, but who at least contributes his sense of humour, making everything more fun.

They decide to go to Wall Street just one day before the financial chaos that provoked the stock market crash, and after taking out all their savings, they celebrate their good fortune in an Italian restaurant. Before they have even finished their meal, the Al Capone gang suddenly appears, and they find themselves forced to hide from the streams of machine-gun fire, which endangered the lives of rest of the diners as well. Fortunately, the police arrive and arrest everyone, including Wells and Groucho, locking them in the dreaded Alcatraz prison, where survival is more difficult than escape.

The third and last trip is to Egypt, to the tomb of King Tutankamon, the very day it was discovered. When the seals are broken open and the archaeologists are within the depths of the tomb, new dangers menace Wells, this time due to the curse of the pharaohs.

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