A high-tech team of dream researchers uses experimental computer technology to enter peoples' dreams and nightmares and help them deal with their subconscious issues there.
A troubled patient brings a dream of murder to the team, convinced that he has killed a woman he doesn't know. Kate (Watts) believes in his innocence while Nathan and the police are concerned. Joining his dreams where the murder occurs the team start to learn about the others players in the dream and are drawn into chasing the other people that appear in the dream.