At a fashionable dinner py in Hong Kong a naval officer is axed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he disvers that the Liberator has developed mechanical blems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to dep, two soldiers board the plane making a plement of eight, Hardie fears that the Dream may be ing true and he is destined to die.