What would you do if you woke up in somebody else’s dream? Worse, if you woke up dead?
And what if you discover that last night's nightmare continues in your real life today? And that you have to go back to your dream for clues on how to stay alive?
Or, what if other people's lives depend on your dreams?
Adam Filder, our main character, is going through all of this, and much more... He's a successful, charismatic young surgeon at the peak of his career and enjoying life to the maximum. He moved from the UK after his university studies and now operates in a private clinic in New York.
Everything is normal and beautiful until one day, when things start to get confusing. He has premonitions about upcoming cases, some of them incredibly accurate in terms of the procedures and treatments he must follow. Sceptical at first and under pressure from desperate cases, Adam begins to follow the suggested procedures on his patients and ends up saving lives in the most impossible circumstances.
Adam soon becomes obsessed with his dreams and tries to find ways to remember every second and detail of them. That’s why he teams up with his brainy friend, Gene, to build a dream-recording machine.
They come up with clever self-learning algorithms to understand and combine mental images, emotions and thoughts with medical knowledge and science to guide Adam. But... will this make things better?
What will Adam do? Will he follow his dreams blindly? Or, will he resist the temptation and use his intelligence and skills instead, despite putting some of his most suffering-patients at risk?
How are his colleagues and his crush, Michelle, reacting? And then, if the dreams influence his reality and not the other way around, should he influence his dreams? The book is following Adam's struggle and spiral fall into his inexplicable yet alluring paradox.