| Director | John Bradshaw |
|---|---|
| Genre | science fiction film, thriller film |
| Runtime | 85 min |
| Country | Canada |
Eight-year-old Mike Hillary (Marc Donato) dreams of fire and a fire breaks out in his room. His mother (Carmelina Lamanna) perishes trying to save him. At the home of his grandparents (Dennis O'Connor and Jennifer Higgin), when his duvet begins to smoulder, he gets into a drawn bath to sleep.
Now 24, unemployed minor-league baseball player Mike Hillary (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) still sleeps in a drawn bath. After reading a short note from an old friend of his mother's, which says, "I believe you", he drives to her hometown to meet town sheriff Jimmy Masterson (David Nerman), who suggests considering the athletic counsellor job at the community centre. Mike asks why his mother left. Masterson says she was pregnant and unmarried, but says no more. Frustrated and angered, Mike leaves just as a fire starts in Masterson's trash can.
Mike starts working at the community centre. He notices children painting the number 11 surrounded by flames. Some "troubled" children respond to swimming, except James (Jared Durand), who fears the water. Mike seems to give the boy an emotional boost, to the delight of instructor Jessica Randall (Ingrid Kavelaars). Later, she catches up with him while jogging. They are accosted by her bully of an ex-boyfriend Blaine (Mark Lutz) and a fight ensues, Mike manifesting super strength and an unfocussed power of remote or tactile spontaneous combustion; objects ignite and Blaine suffers burns to his chest from Mike's pyrokinetic touch.
During a baseball game at the community centre, Mike has a vision of James being hurt and bullied by another boy, Bart (Kevin Zegers). Mike finds them and puts a stop to it. Meanwhile, at the sheriff's office, Blaine (his son) claims that Mike attacked him and has "superhuman powers." Masterson is skeptical — until Blaine shows him a hand-shaped burn on his chest. Later, Mike swims in the community centre's pool with Jessica, who notices the water getting warmer. Then, at her house apartment, he opens up a bit, they kiss, and another fire starts. Mike puts it out with his hands, which are not burned. Jessica now knows his secret. He warns her to keep away and runs off.
Meanwhile, on two successive nights, two powerful-looking men emerge from a lake — aliens in human camouflage biosuits - the bounty hunter Eleven (), and Sixty-six (Andrew Jackson).
Masterson pays a visit to Mike and reveals what he knows about Mike's mother; she believed that she had been impregnated by an alien and that she left town before Mike was born. Mike is appalled and angered, a lamp bursts into flames, and he orders Masterson to leave. That night, Blaine sneaks into Mike's vacated motel room and is apprehended by Eleven, who kills him once he learns of Mike's connection to Jessica.
The next day, Eleven goes to interrogate Jessica at the community centre, where James is intoning "Eleven" repeatedly, which Mike hears and then sees through extrasensory perception and precognitive visions. Jessica runs from Eleven when his interrogation of her turns aggressive. He corners her with a wall of fire. Mike arrives, calling for her, and sees her helpless in the pool and jumps in, only to be ambushed by Eleven, who tries to drown him. Suddenly, Sixty-six intervenes to save Mike. He tells Eleven he is in charge and subdues him with a burst of flames.
Mike awakens in a car being driven by Sixty-six, who explains that experiments on humans and other terrestrial life have gone on for thousands of years, his mother was one, and that to them Mike is a mere "viable specimen", but he refuses to allow anything to happen to Mike — his son. Mike becomes upset and the car ignites. He runs into the woods. Eleven catches up to Sixty-six and they fight a fiery duel to the death. Eleven wins, but Mike returns and challenges him. Holding nothing back, Mike's powers prove greater than Eleven's, destroying him utterly. Sixty-six, wounded and dying from exposure to Earth's atmosphere, leaves Mike's questions about himself or others like him unanswered. Mike sets his body adrift and ignites it.
Mike and Jessica leave town together, despite his misgivings about hurting her. She says they can "take precautions" and produces a fire extinguisher. Back at the community centre, Bart bullies James again, and discovers a fire in his hall locker.