They ran away from home, but now they're officially missing. Three people believe that the boy with a secret gift - Cole Sear - can solve the mystery. Two are among the missing; one of them is dead.
When a commercial jetliner falls from the sky, it's up to Cole Sear to help the lone survivor of the crash, a little girl who is suspended in a coma. Only then will he solve the mystery of the accident. But first he has to listen to and do what the ghosts of the plane's dead passengers want him to do.