Over one year ago, thousands of missing people returned. Slowly, they begin to manifest strange powers - to heal and to destroy, to alter the present and to perceive the future. As it becomes clear that their gifts could reshape the world, the struggle for control begins. Who will decide the fate of humanity?

芬克（瑞斯·丹尼尔·汤普森 Reece Daniel Thompson 饰）想加入校报成就自己的记者梦，但是同学都在拿他高二时的糗事开涮，还好校报编辑克拉拉给了他一个证明自己的机会——写一篇关于学生会主席保罗的专稿。为此，芬克忍受着同学的嘲讽与校长（布鲁斯·威利斯 Br uce Willis 饰）的点名，投入调查之中。期间，保罗的女友弗朗切斯卡（米查·巴顿 Mischa Barton 饰）曾经请他帮忙寻找失踪的SAT试卷。结果，芬克发现偷试卷者正是保罗，他也因这篇稿件一鸣惊人，不但克拉拉要给他西北大学的推荐信，弗朗切斯卡也来主动示好，两人于是开始正式交往。幸福来得措手不及，这让芬克难以招架，正当他享受热恋之时，却有事实表明——保罗是被冤枉的。当芬克发现自己成了幕后黑手的帮凶时，真正的威胁才刚刚开始……

Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.