Mike and Janet Wilson have lived together happily for twenty-five years. A successful marriage, lovely home, lucrative careers and an ambitious son is what they have to show for years of hard work, until their lives shatter at the hands of Janet's recurring nightmare of The Man in Black. Her dreams always begin the same way - she surprises him as he burglarizes their home and shoots him as he attacks. But with each successive dream, The Man in Black crawls after her and comes closer and closer until he finally touches her just before she wakes up. Mike convinces her it was all just a dream, yet several strange occurrences distort fantasy with reality, and as Janet struggles for answers the events that gradually unfold reveal nothing is what it seems.