Nick Donaghue a young handsome obituary writer for The Times leads a charmed existence until he is caught up in one of Britain's worst ever train crashes. When he survives unscathed his friends & colleagues consider him the luckiest man alive. Only Nick knows the truth
- that he is tormented by horrific nightmares. When they start to appear grimly prescient his meticulously constructed urban life is derailed. Escaping to the wilds of Cornwall strikes him as the answer especially after he becomes captivated by a beautiful woman & a tempestuous horse he sees playing on a beach. But when his nightmares return they threaten his fragile new world. As Nick struggles to understand his dreams his demons & most dangerously of all his passions he realises that falling in love might come at a terrible price.