For Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), that time has come. In a blazing 20-storey warehouse, Jack – a member of the Fire Department’s Engine 33 - rescues a survivor from the 12th floor by lowering him out of a window in a heart-stopping sequence. Then, everything goes wrong when Jack falls through a hole and becomes trapped in the worsening inferno. While the chief, Mike Kennedy (John Travolta) tries to work out how he and his men can rescue him, Jack reviews his past years as a fire fighter, shown in a series of flashbacks that are intercut with his current life-threatening situation during which he drifts in and out of consciousness and begins to run out of oxygen. The...