 Paul (James Franciscus), a recently divorced man, has a dream that his daughter Emily (Lorie Busk) gets murdered as an adult (Lisa James). Believing it to be a premonition, he goes to the town where this will happen to see if he can prevent it. While there, he falls for Julie (Meg Foster) the owner of the boardinghouse where he is staying. It turns out that Julie is engaged to Ed (Karl Swenson), who turns out to be the man who murders Emily in Paul s vision. Chaos ensues as Paul and Ed end up fighting over Julie, and Ed ends up dead. Paul gets off by claiming the death was an accident, but Julie has one more nasty surprise waiting for Paul before he leaves town for good.