LOGLINE:
Johnny visits a noted local psychiatrist to seek treatment for his persistent nightmares. After his first session on the couch triggers a cryptic vision of an impending homicide, he is thrust into an investigation that will not only reveal the murderer's identity, but will ultimately uncover a family secret buried in the deepest, darkest regions of his subconscious.

SYNOPSIS:
Johnny (Anthony Michael Hall) is awakened one night by the sound of static from his TV. As he calls the repair shop, he hears a pounding sound in the next room. When he goes to investigate, he sees a man crying by the window. As he touches him, the man spins around, his facial features grotesquely distorted, and Johnny falls backwards. The floor gives way beneath him, and he falls through a white abyss. Upon landing, he walks blindly into a white light and sees a lifeless body on the ground, covered in dust. Other bodies appear and one of them grabs his shoulder. Just as the figure is about to speak, Johnny, who has been in the throes of a nightmare, wakes up to the sound of power tools. Workers are restoring the hardwood floors in his home, and the foreman asks Johnny what should be done in the obviously neglected office of his late father, Herb (Michael Cudlitz). As Johnny considers the question, he touches one of the cabinets in the office and is hit with a vision of himself as a young boy (Kai-Read Friedmann) being dismissed by his father. When an adult Johnny reaches out to his father in the vision, he flashes to a vision of his present-day self destroying the floor with a sledgehammer.

Later, Bruce and a determined Johnny attempt to move his dad’s desk out of the office, but it’s too heavy to budge. Looking around, Bruce stumbles upon some old photos of a young Johnny and his parents. In every photo, however, Johnny notices that Herb looks distant. The next day, Johnny visits Purdy (David Ogden Stiers) to try to learn more about his father and confesses that he’s been having nightmares. Purdy suggests that he see a psychiatrist and recommends a friend, but Johnny isn’t interested.

Back at home, Johnny opens a closet and finds a straitjacket inside. As he touches it, he’s thrust into a vision of Herb bound in the jacket, yelling and thrashing around wildly. Coming out of the vision, Johnny sees a figure behind him in the mirror and turns, but no one is there. Frustrated, he shouts out and bolts upright in bed. He’s had another bizarre nightmare.

Johnny decides it’s time for some professional help after all, and goes to see Purdy’s friend, Dr. Jenson (Don MacKay). In the waiting room, he notices a little girl (Alexus Dumont) playing with her rag doll. Oddly, she doesn’t respond when talks to her. Inside Jenson’s office, Johnny recounts his nightmares to the doctor, who tries to explore further, but Johnny becomes defensive and leaves. As he says goodbye to the receptionist, he asks about the little girl. Confused, the receptionist informs him that Dr. Jenson hasn’t treated children in 30 years.

At home that night, Johnny has another vision of himself as a boy happily racing through the house on his skateboard. But his mood quickly changes when he sees his father ripping into the floorboards in his office and babbling about something. Back in the present, Johnny finds the sledgehammer and pounds through the floor in the same spot his father did, mirroring his earlier vision. He reaches into the hole and pulls out the same rag doll that belonged to the little girl he saw in Dr. Jenson’s office. Holding the doll triggers a vision of several dust-covered band instruments and the body of the little girl.

Johnny revisits the doctor’s office the next day on the pretext of looking for his wallet, and as he sits down on the couch where he saw the little girl, he’s thrust into a vision of the office circa 1977. He sees the girl, Ally, and a young Dr. Jenson (Michael Daingerfield), finishing up a session. Johnny realizes that Herb is also there, and sees the moment when his father first finds the girl’s rag doll, pain and torment etched on his face. Snapping out of the vision, Johnny storms into the psychiatrist’s office and demands to know what happened to his father. Dr. Jenson refuses and warns Johnny he might not like what finds if he continues to dig up the past.

Back at home, Johnny tries in vain to convince Walt (Chris Bruno) to confiscate the doctor’s file on his father. Meanwhile, Bruce realizes that the construction on the house is releasing psychic energy which is triggering Johnny’s visions of his dad. Johnny is convinced that Herb is trying to tell him something and breaks into Dr. Jenson’s office that night. He finds his father’s file and when he touches his mother’s signature on one of the forms, he’s hit with a vision of Herb being committed to Brockmore, a mental institution. Herb is again ranting about death and trying to warn them of something. A bright light yanks Johnny back to reality, and he sees Dr. Jenson in the doorway with a gun pointed at him.

Later, Walt takes a statement from Dr. Jenson as Johnny sits in the back of the police car. The psychiatrist agrees not to press charges against Johnny for the break-in since Walt is willing to vouch for him. A short while later, Johnny explains to Walt what he was looking for and convinces him to drive them to the former Brockmore Institute, now a private school. There, Rogers (Bruce Harwood), a school administrator, gives them a tour and explains the history of the building. As Johnny touches a wall, the room morphs back into the way it looked when the facility was a psych hospital and he sees Herb in the corner, isolated and detached.

Back in the present, Rogers leads Johnny and Walt to the abandoned east wing where they explore the run-down remains of the mental hospital. Johnny finds the treatment room and as he sits in the chair, he morphs into Herb, sitting opposite a young Dr. Jenson. Herb/Johnny rattles on about stopping “them” before it’s too late and starts to become violent. As he’s being restrained, a kind nurse, Lydia Davis (Wendy Noel), tries to comfort him.

Back in the present, Walt and Johnny go to Lydia’s home and find out that the now elderly woman (Doris Chillcott) has dementia. When Johnny talks to her, she treats him familiarly at first, but then grows frightened. Holding her hand, Johnny flashes on different points in her life before stopping on a vision of Lydia comforting Herb at the mental hospital. When Johnny goes home, he finds the rag doll and is thrust into quick flashes of dust, explosions, and screaming before settling on a vision of Ally’s bedroom at night. He sees Herb standing over her while she sleeps. She bolts awake and is terrified, but Herb tells her he just needs to ask her some questions. He touches her arm and she screams, causing him to collapse onto the floor, crying. As Johnny goes to him, he sees a young Purdy standing just outside the house.

Later that night, Johnny bursts into Purdy’s office and demands an explanation. Purdy tells him that around Johnny’s seventh birthday, his father started seeing things. Herb believed that Ally was the key to the demons that haunted him and Purdy was there to save him from himself. When Johnny asks if his father was a psychic like him, Purdy tells him that Herb’s affliction was “nothing born of God.”

Johnny gets the full name of the little girl and goes to the building where she now works in Portland, Maine. He corners the adult Allison (Kate Twa) and shows her the rag doll. As she touches it, he’s hit with a vision of the aftermath of a horrific incident in which debris and dust cover bloodied people, who are running and screaming. Looking around, he sees a grown-up Allison, dead.

In the present, Allison flees from Johnny and as he scours the building directory for her company, he discovers that she is an architect. He rushes off and calls Walt, who is at the dedication of the new Bangor Cultural Center. Hearing music in the background and recalling the instruments in his visions, Johnny realizes that this building is going to collapse. He races to the scene and warns Walt and the construction chief to get everyone away from the building. A worker tells the chief about a problem in the gas line, and when Johnny touches it, he is hit with a vision of a gas leak. Then he sees Allison flick a light switch inside the building, which ignites the gas and causes a massive explosion. The building collapses from the pressure and chaos ensues.

Back in the present, Johnny runs to find Allison before it’s too late, and yells to Walt to evacuate everyone. He finds Allison just as she turns on the light switch, but is able to rescue her from the resulting explosion. They race through the building as it starts to collapse. Outside, the evacuated crowd watches in horror as the building crumbles to the ground.

At the hospital, Walt and Purdy wait to see how Johnny is doing. Bruce reports that he escaped the collapse with just a broken arm and other minor injuries, and tells Purdy that Johnny would like to speak with him. Johnny is relieved to hear from Purdy that everyone survived the catastrophe and tells him he now knows his father predicted the collapse years earlier. Purdy hands Johnny an envelope containing a photo of a young Johnny and Herb, but in this one, they’re both smiling. Moved, Johnny retrieves the rag doll from his personal belongings and is again thrust into a vision of his father muttering in his office. A young Johnny enters and tells his dad that “she” told him there was going to be a big explosion. When Herb asks who told him this, Johnny holds up the rag doll.