A Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight people take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains at a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong. Air Marshal Hardie, who is scheduled to fly to Tokyo the next day, is among those listening. Hardie dismisses the dream at first because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but when he arrives at the airport, he discovers that the Liberator has mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When two soldiers board the plane just before takeoff, bringing the total to eight, Hardie fears that his dream is coming true and he is doomed to die.