Fortunate enough to survive a freak accident that makes her the focus of national attention, a schoolteacher finds that her life is quickly unravelling. Her name belongs to a stranger, the town where she was born has no record of her birth, and the street where she lived doesn't exist. And then there are the dreams...chilling, mysterious nightmares of faces that soon appear as front-page victims of a brutal serial killer that an FBI profiler has been pursuing for years. Now an unstoppable evil is emerging from the recesses of her buried past-a murderer who intends to use her as the key element in his final, twisted goal...