Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) is a beautiful blonde reporter for a Seattle news station. With a baseball-superstar boyfriend, a wonderful apartment and a job opportunity with a national network in New York, Lanie’s life is all going according to plan. The only thorn in her side is the cameraman, and ex-lover, she’s been teamed with called Pete (Burns). Pete is funny, charming and utterly disinterested in a career, much to Lanie’s disbelief, but the pair have an undeniable chemistry that Pete exploits at every turn.

Everything changes for Lanie in an instant when she meets homeless Prophet Jack (Shalhoub) for an interview. After he gives her routine predications about the weather and football scores, he breaks the ominous news that she will be dead in seven days...