Terry suggests to play soccer to his friends, but everyone is distracted by their devices. Disappointed, he decides to use the yellow telephone to find out where wasted time goes and finds himself in 19th-century England. There he meets Jane and Charles, two street children who show him how adults and children are victims of a system that alienates them and steals their time.
The factory of a gentelman of Birmingham is the pinnacle of destruction: no one knows what it produces, people work 14-hour days with blank stares. Terry discovers that Lord Temporos is behind it all, wanting to hoard other people’s time as if it were money.
When Terry, Jane, and Charles are surrounded by Temporos robots, Parky intervenes, risking his life by sabotaging the machinery. The explosion frees the workers and children from their alienation: they smile, dance, sing, run, and finally move freely. Terry observes the contrast between past toil and newfound freedom, and returns to the present with a new awareness: time must be lived, shared, and played.