O professor do MIT, John Koestler, relaciona uma lista misteriosa de números de uma cápsula do tempo a desastres passados e futuros e se propõe a prevenir a catástrofe final.
Fifty years after it was buried in a time capsule, a schoolgirl's cryptic document falls into the hands of Caleb Koestler, the son of professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage). John figures out that the encoded message accurately lists every major disaster from the past five decades..