Saturday, 5:10 P.M. Sixteen-year-old Heidi Landseth is alone in her isolated home near York City.
5:15 P.M. Across town, seventeen-year-old Patrick Farquhar, a volunteer rescue worker, longs to prove himself in a real emergency.
5:41 P.M. A deafening roar fills the air and the sky glows red. Flight #116, a jumbo jet en route to New York, has crashed in the woods behind Heidi's house.
Mustering strength and courage she never knew she had, Heidi—alone at first, and then with Patrick and hundreds of others—works to help the suffering and dying victims. It is a night that will change her life.