Tom Merrick (Casper Van Dien) is a recently fired reporter who is assigned the grunt work of researching great disasters of the past. He realises that in many photos of the disasters, he can see the same unusual man lurking around. Not long after, he sees the same man on a flight to Washington. Tom has to team up with another reporter to find out about this mysterious man and other people apparently travelling through time and lurking around terrible disasters.