In the fall of 1959, for a time capsule, students draw pictures of life as
they imagine it will be in 50 years. Lucinda, an odd child who hears
voices, swiftly writes a long string of numbers. In 2009, the capsule is
opened; student Caleb Koestler gets Lucinda's "drawing" and his father
John, an astrophysicist and grieving widower, takes a look. He discovers
dates of disasters over the past 50 years with the number who died. Three
dates remain, all coming soon. He investigates, learns of Lucinda, and
looks for her family. He fears for his son, who's started to hear voices
and who is visited by a silent stranger who shows him a vision of fire and
destruction. What's going on?
In 1959, a group of primary school students draw pictures for a time
capsule of what they think the world will look like in 2009. One of the
children, Lucinda Wayland, doesn't draw a picture but completes a long list
of numbers. In 2009, the school opens the capsule and distribute the
pictures to the students with Caleb Koestler getting the page with all the
numbers. Caleb's father John, a university professor and astrophysicist, is
intrigued and in managing to decipher the code, realizes that the numbers
represent the date, location and number of people killed in major
catastrophes, some natural and others man-made. He also sees that there are
3 disasters that have yet to occur. Lucinda Wayland has died but John
contacts her daughter Diana and together they try to warn officials of what
is coming. The last of the three disasters may be unstoppable however.
In the year 1959, a frightened and disturbed little girl named Lucinda was
in school when her class was drawing up pictures for the school's time
capsule, but Lucinda drew up a weird system of numbers and even was
scratching at the school janitor's door. Now, 50 years later, John Koestler
an astronomer and a professor at MIT is at his son, Caleb's school to open
up the time capsule and was given Lucinda's system of numbers. When John
was looking at the numbers, he quickly realized that it was some type of
code that predicted the month, date and year of a specific disaster, and
how many people died in that particular disaster. After witnessing a plane
crash at Logan International Airport, and saving people from a freak New
York Subway accident, John realizes that the last disaster on the code is
the end of the world when one of the Sun's solar flares will scorch the
Earth. Meanwhile, Caleb witnesses strange people who stalk him, and a
little girl named Abby and her mother named Diana. Now, John and his son
Caleb along with Abby and Diana must save as many people as they can from
the Sun's solar flares while trying to find out about the strange people.
A lecturer finds dire warnings in a series of numbers written 50 years ago
in a time capsule at his son's school. Some events have already occurred.
Others are yet to happen, and very soon! What follows affects his son and
himself directly.
