Dennis Quaid plays a compulsive gambler with telepathic powers who takes a job as a dream therapist to pay off his debts. He has the ability to step into the nightmares of other people and, in doing so, can help them overcome the traumas which cause them. However, someone else with the same gift is determined to invade the paranoid dreams of the US President, with potentially deadly consequences. Quaid is the only obstacle in the way of this seemingly fail-safe asassination plot.