Stephen Boone has a problem. If he doesn't stop drinking, he will die. But for this washed-up writer, it's not so simple. Along with the sweats and shakes of alcohol withdrawal, Stephen sees dead people - ghastly images of the future where men, women and children are about to die horribly. Now he's a suspect in a gruesome murder. Jailed, he'll have no choice but to face sobriety and the terrors that come with it.