Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall) once led an idyllic small-town life. Employed as a science teacher, Johnny took great pleasure in showing his students the wonders of the natural world. He was engaged to a loving fiancée named Sarah (Nicole deBoer), a fellow teacher he'd known since childhood, and was a good son to his widowed mother. Johnny's life was nearly perfect... until the day it was interrupted by a near-fatal car crash that left him in a deep coma for six years.
It's now been over three years since Johnny regained consciousness and discovered that life as he once knew it has completely changed forever. His mother has long since passed away, Sarah has married someone else - and he has a son he's just now getting to know. Even Johnny is no longer the same person he once was: he now possesses amazing psychic powers that allow him to see into the past and future through visions triggered by touch.