A young woman from 2000 BC Mesopotamia is transported to present day New York where she meets a college professor who should know better than to mess around with a magical scroll of the ancients. 

SYNOPSIS:

It's 2000 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia and KAKASH, drunk and disorderly is performing his apprentice magic on his gorgeous sister, SAMARA. In an attempt to shrink her into an urn, as punishment, he is successful but inadvertently shrinks himself into an adjoining urn where they both sit on the mantel until history can release them.

They show up as a spot prize at a gala in present day New York and are won by AMBROSE and MONICA, an unlikely yuppie couple. Ambrose is as discontent with Monica as he is with modern day life. Taking one of the urns to their respective apartments, they both have a surprise in store for each of them. Ambrose releases Samara from her urn; Monica later discovering Kakash.

Ambrose immediately falls in love with Samara, but doesn't know it quite yet. Discovering that she's not a magic Genie to fix all his ills he wants to be rid of her for fear that she will disrupt his chance at tenure at the university where he teaches. Monica and Kakash don't hit it off so well, her liberated feminist mentally not taking any crap from an ancient chauvinist, magic or no. She takes Kakash to Ambrose to let him sort this stone age couple out. Kakash has other plans and upon meeting Samara, scuffles with Ambrose and steals her away off into the streets of New York where they duly are as astonished with modernity as they are lost.

Good riddance says Monica but Ambrose is smitten and goes in search of Samara. He eventually bails them out of jail and they are put in his custody. There's only one thing to do and that is try to get them back to their own time using the same magic that got them there. Only Kakash wants to go back, Samara likes the way women are treated in this unfamiliar age. Kakash unfurls the magic scroll of the ancients and chants the incantations. After a few mishaps, he vanishes - taking Samara with him.

Despite Monica's relief and apathy, Ambrose remains haunted by the beautiful Samara, his days become increasingly listless. He decides he's had enough of modern living - he wants to go after her. Setting the scene exactly as he remembers, he reads from the scroll, which is quickly disintegrating. Monica looks on in amusement, supplying droll remarks on every failed attempt. Ambrose disappears - taking Monica with him.

Monica and Ambrose arrive in two thousand B.C Mesopotamia on the top of a seven story Ziggurat and realize that they are in line to be thrown from the edifice along with the rest of the convicts. They plead leniency and are given a meeting with the high priest. The priest seems to think that they are from Egypt which is where he goes every year on vacation. He lets them free.

In the marketplace they arrive just in time to see Samara being auctioned off by her dastardly brother. Arranged marriages suck. Ambrose can't allow it to happen and storms the stage creating upheaval among the bidders. He carts her off like he saw Errol Flynn do once and a chariot race ensues. Kakash and some irate money lenders take hot pursuit. The two couples end up in the desert somewhere drawing magic circles in the sand in a vain attempt to get back home. A novice magician is useless without his scroll. Late into the night they have to get used to the fact that they are stuck in time.

Ambrose moves in with Samara and begins inventing what he can remember from modern day living. Using her journalism skills, Monica starts the first ever newspaper business, wheeling tablets of stone in a makeshift wheelbarrow while shouting "Hear all about it..." They never stop thinking about getting back to New York, however, and one day, they might just succeed…