 Five-year-old Janie Bennett happily lives with her foster parents Miles and Sheri Bennett, oblivious to the fact that her insane birth mother is attempting to kidnap her. When the birth mother, Andrea Fletcher, and her boyfriend Jude, a carny, do attempt to kidnap the girl, Andrea can t go through with it. The girl later wanders away after she and Sheri are in a car accident and she winds up being found at the carnival by Jude. Her worried foster parents then enlist the assistance of a parapsychologist to help them interpret the foster mother s terrifying dreams and psychic connection to the girl and find her before it is too late.