"He spends his working hours driving a cab in New York City, talking compulsively about the conspiracies he thinks lurk behind everything. From fluoride in the water to international monetary policy, Jerry Fletcher has an opinion on all of it - and his opinion is that "they" are in control, and we are the victims of some massive, terrible plot.

"But Jerry's not a garden-variety crackpot. Because somewhere in his memory are flashes of recollection so frightening, so real and so sinister in their implications that Jerry Fletcher is certain he's not imagining things. There are bad people out there, working together. They have their eyes on Jerry and they want something from him. He just doesn't know what.

"When Jerry's not driving his taxi, he's at home compulsively assembling all the information he can find on possible conspiracies. Then he takes his files and his theories to the only ear he believes is sympathetic to his warnings - even though he's already been thrown out of Alice Sutton's office -- eight times, to be exact.

"Alice (JULIA ROBERTS) is a dedicated Justice Department attorney working in New York. She has some compulsions of her own: since her father, a noted federal judge, was mysteriously murdered several years ago, Alice has been unable to accept the official explanation of his death - or the identity of the killer. Instead, she has buried herself in work and in research on her father's case.

"Alice has little patience (although she does acknowledge a slight, grudging fondness) for Jerry and his eccentricities. But then one day Jerry is abducted by the enigmatic Dr. Jonas (PATRICK STEWART), an urbane government psychiatrist who's as determined to know what Jerry's memory hides as Jerry is himself.

"After a horrific encounter that nearly kills him, Jerry escapes Dr. Jonas and desperately seeks Alice, who now feels compelled to listen. The lawyer and the cabbie, an unlikely pair if ever there was one, suddenly find themselves in a desperate flight for their lives. In the process, they discover the truth about a shocking event that reveals secrets both of them must understand.

"Jerry will protect Alice with his life, if necessary. But why? From whom? And where does Dr. Jonas fit in? Is this the conspiracy he's been waiting to uncover all along? Jerry doesn't know. But his heart tells him Alice means everything. The rest will explain itself.