Samuel is eighteen and has spent the last four years of his life in an institution, struggling with night terrors. In what he can remember of his nightmares, someone has always been murdered. Abandoned by his parents, and released from the institution, Samuel faces the world alone. With nowhere else to go, he turns to Calvin, a childhood friend, who tries to help him start a normal life. Still haunted by his nightmares, Samuel is compelled to investigate and discovers that someone from his dreams actually existed. He begins to believe his nightmares are the memories from previous lives. But Calvin has something Samuel could never have anticipated . . . a paperback novel entitled, "The Journeymen Diaries." Within its pages, Samuel finds his nightmares are written in vivid detail. Convinced the author is an incarnate, Samuel sets out to find the writer and stop him, before anyone else is murdered.