Christopher Walken stars as high-school teacher Johnny Smith, a car-crash victim who wakes up from a 5-year coma with the ability to see into people's future. Consequently this extra sensory perception enables Johnny to avert several potential disasters and earns him a degree of local celebrity.

After his 5 missing years however, Johnny has lost both his job and his fiance and he longs for his former existence without his new 'gift'. That is until he meets with a local politician and would-be presidential candidate (Martin Sheen) and sees future-events of genuinely catalysmic proportions. It is only then that Johnny must come to terms with his powers, his conscience, and his destiny.