A young man emerges from a near-death experience with a disturbing psychic talent that leads him to Reno, Nevada where he's hired as a Mentalist. Thirty years later, a documentary filmmaker interviews him about his unusual career.

Alice, a college Professor of Comparative Religious Studies, meets an enigmatic older woman who roams the campus, sleeps under a bridge, and rattles her with disturbing insights that forever alters the course of her existence.