Early one morning a teenage paranoid schizophrenic begins a quest to save the world. His frantic mother, Violet, is joined by missing persons specialist, Ali Lateef, in an attempt to locate her son before psychosis claims him. Lateef realizes that this is more than a case of a runaway: the boy has a chilling case history and Violet harbors a secret that Lateef will discover at his own peril.