In a world rocked by 9/11, novice Los Angeles television reporter Sydney St. James is teamed with veteran international news anchor Hunz Vonner when people randomly begin receiving notices informing them that they have forty-eight hours to live. With chilling precision, every one who receives an official death watch notice dies at the tick of the clock at the forty-eighth hour. From an unlikely source, as time is running out, Sydney and Hunz are presented with a bizarre scenario, and they suddenly find themselves facing the ultimate terrorist.