At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a naval officer is coaxed 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but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the Dream may be coming true and he is destined to die. 译文(2): 在香港一个时髦的晚宴上，一位海军军官被哄骗着讲述了一个梦的细节: 八个人从曼谷乘达科他州的飞机前往东京，在日本山区坠毁。在听众中有空军元帅哈迪，他将于第二天飞往东京。哈迪最初否定了这个梦想，因为他计划乘坐一架“解放者”飞机离开，但当哈迪抵达机场时，他发现“解放者”出现了机械故障，被一架“达科他”取代了。就在飞机即将起飞之前，两名士兵登上飞机补充了八名士兵，哈迪担心这个梦想可能会成真，他注定要死去。