Your job is other people’s madness. The chaos of their thoughts, the confusion of their words, the illogic of their actions. And your job is also not to lose yourself among them. But how can you do that when one of the most dangerous patients — sixteen-year-old Bethany Krall — keeps talking day after day about floods, fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes?
Write it all off as a diagnosis: “obsessive ideas of various apocalyptic scenarios”? But they begin to come true! Ignore it? Try to save someone?.. And Bethany is already predicting: “On October twelfth — the end of the world.”