Frank Nolan and Fay Peronivic find themselves mysteriously drawn to an all-night café following a surreal brush with death.

When Frank gets involved with a married woman whose husband is very possessive, Fay worries for his safety.

The café slows down time in order to enable a detective to find the answer to an unsolved murder before his death by gunshot.

The café brings Frank back to his hometown, where he befriends a boy whose comatose body lies in the town hospital.

When a desperate tabloid writer concocts a story about a small-town alien invasion, his simple lie snowballs out of his control.