Amnesic following a terrorist strike, John Fairchild, a divorced American journalist living in London is commissioned by an editor stubbornly insensitive to his new handicap (James Thoreau) to research the events leading up to the attacks. But crucially, John, unable to remember, has difficulty piecing together a life shrouded in failed memory, and the new deadline is the least of his worries. He starts receiving strange telephone calls, and finds...