A new patient - 24-year-old Lucy Lowell - has come to the semi-retired psychologist Alex Delaware, straight from the jury of a serial killer's grisly trial. The trial was harrowing enough, but now it's triggered a recurring and haunting dream in which Lucy - as a little girl - watches a gang of men bury a young woman's body in the woods.

Dr. Delaware knows he may find the creepy dream's origin through hypnosis. He hopes to bring to the surface what seems to be Lucy's buried childhood memory. When Lucy becomes adamant that her life is in grave danger, it's up to Dr. Delaware to find out if her fears are imagined or if a desperate killer wants to eliminate a witness to a 20-year-old murder.