David Winkler grows up in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy with a fondness for snow and the beauty of ice crystals. Sometimes he can see events before they happen - a man with a hatbox gets hit by a bus, he falls in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his newborn daughter dies in a flood while he tries to save her, he panics and flees Cleveland, where the family now lives. Can he change the course of events this way? Penniless, alone, and uncertain whether his daughter has survived - the Ohio River has indeed overflowed in Cleveland - Winkler lives on a Caribbean island with a couple who have a daughter that takes care of him. Ultimately, it is the daughter who brings him back to the world to search for the people he has left behind. 25 years.