"Striking Gold" follows the gripping journey of Jake McAllister, a determined cowboy from Wyoming, as he ventures West in the year 1849 to try his luck in the California gold rush. In the pursuit of fortune for his family, Jake's fate takes an unexpected turn when he survives a deadly encounter with a notorious bandit. During the struggle, Jake discovers a mysterious time-traveling watch on the bandit's person. As he activates the device unwittingly, Jake is transported to a parallel time, where the landscape is both familiar and alien. In this temporal anomaly, Jake finds himself facing not only the challenges of the 19th-century frontier but also the dangers of a world yet to come.
—John Simmonds