The protagonist, Nora Seed, experiences a painful revival back to life at exactly one minute and twenty-seven seconds after midnight, leaving her violently sick and hardly functioning.
She fights to get out of bed and tries to pick up her phone, but is too weak and the phone falls out of sight.
Nora stumbles through her home, which feels as if it is tilting, and manages to unlock and open the front door.
Even though no one appears to be around, she staggers towards her neighbor, Mr Banerjee's house, and rings his doorbell.
She admits to Mr Banerjee that she's done something very foolish and asks him to call an ambulance, which he agrees to do immediately.
She lasts until 00:03:48, then surrenders to her weakness and collapses onto Mr Banerjee's doormat.