In 1990 Thomas Clark, a successful children's book writer, begins to experience debilitating nightmares about his notorious fourth grade bully Nigel Clemmings. After one of these episodes Thomas wakes up with blood on his hands, the TV covering a murder from the previous night and an extremely strange message written on his bedroom wall. With the help of his psychiatrist, and two childhood friends, Thomas has no choice but to begin reliving his painful childhood in an effort to unmask the truth behind this conspiracy.