Charlatan medium Martha Travis (Arquette) and her alcoholic father, Walter (Robards), make their living travelling from town to town putting on spiritualist performances during which Martha delivers false messages of hope from the dead to their surviving loved ones. At one such performance, Martha gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. The problem is, Tom isn't dead. When Tom is killed exactly as Martha envisioned, the case attracts the attention of sceptical journalist Gary Wallace (Hulce), who discovers that Martha's premonition also revealed to her the identity of Tom Kuron's murderer. Congratulations: Your vote has been cast