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The entropy of the universe will not decrease. All of us are mortal. But anticipating things before they happen is how we mere mortals can slow down time. In the early morning of October 21, 1966, Middleton, a music teacher living in the suburbs of London, was awakened by a nightmare. She woke up breathless and convinced that disaster was coming. An hour later, a coal mine collapsed in South Wales, killing 144 people, mostly children. Among the doctors and first responders who arrived at the scene was psychiatrist John Buck. After the disaster, the replies from various "premonitors" prompted him to set up the Premonition Bureau, a network composed of hundreds of correspondents from all walks of life, from bank clerks to ballet teachers... Among them, two gifted "premonitors" predicted flight crashes, assassinations and international events with astonishing accuracy. Soon after, the two tell Buck about a disturbing premonition: he is about to die... Predicting the future is almost impossible, but sometimes it does come true.