Passengers board a delayed flight from Hobart, Tasmania to Sydney, not noticing a quiet, gray-haired woman among them.

A woman later known as the Death Lady stands in the aisle and begins predicting each passenger's cause and age of death.

Cherry predicts that civil engineer Leo Vodnik will die in a workplace accident at age 43.

Cherry predicts that baby Timmy will drown at age seven, reducing his mother Paula to tears.

Cherry predicts that software engineer Ethan Chang will die from assault at age 30.

Cherry predicts that newlywed Eve will be killed by an intimate partner at age 25.

Cherry returns to her seat after one final prediction: flight attendant Allegra will die by self-harm at 28.

A video of passenger Kayla Halfpenny dying in a car accident at age 19 spreads online, confirming Cherry's prediction.

Two elderly doctors from the flight die in quick succession as Cherry predicted, sending panic through survivors.

Paula and Eve meet at the doctors' funerals and create a social media account to track down Cherry.

A man Cherry nicknames Thor knocks on her door and reveals she made death predictions on a flight she cannot remember.

Cherry shouts a warning that saves Leo Vodnik from being crushed by a toppling excavating machine.

Cherry releases a public statement explaining she is a retired actuary, not a psychic.

Cherry meets Paula face to face, apologizes, and says she has no real ability to see the future.

Timmy Binici wins his first Olympic gold medal at age 17, crediting swim lessons inspired by a fortune teller's prediction.

Cherry Lockwood, a grieving widow, boards a delayed flight from Hobart to Sydney and—in a state she will not remember—predicts the death of every passenger aboard. Her predictions for Leo, baby Timmy, Ethan, Eve, and flight attendant Allegra send each of them into fear and reflection about how to live with a deadline. When a young passenger named Kayla dies exactly as predicted, followed by two elderly doctors, panic spreads among the survivors and a search for Cherry begins. Paula and Eve team up and eventually uncover Cherry's identity, while Cherry herself is horrified to learn what she did and moves to set the record straight. The pool closes at the story's resolution, where Timmy—who nearly drowned at seven—wins Olympic gold, crediting the swim lessons begun because of a fortune teller's prediction.

The flight that changed everyone's lives.

Cherry predicts that nurse Sue O'Sullivan will die of pancreatic cancer at age 66.

Allegra injures her back while helping a passenger lift a heavy bag during the flight.

Leo tells his wife Neve about Cherry's prediction, and their daughter Bridie overhears and becomes frightened.

Paula begins driving 40 minutes each week to enroll baby Timmy in multiple swim schools.

Sue's doctor friend Caterina urges her to get baseline medical tests after hearing about Cherry's prediction.

Newlyweds Eve and Dom discover they are deeply in debt from their wedding and living expenses.

Dom researches homicidal sleepwalking and begins handcuffing himself to the bed each night to protect Eve.

Ethan visits a psychic named Luca with his flatmate Jasmine and receives what seems to be a message from his dead friend Harvey.

Sue mistakes a stomach virus for the predicted pancreatic cancer but recovers and takes up salsa dancing with Max.

Allegra tells pilot Jonny that she loves him and begins training to become a pilot herself.

Allegra's mother, who works in insurance, posts online that Cherry may be an actuary based on how she worded her predictions.

Leo and Ethan identify the symbol on Cherry's brooch as the Kronecker delta, linking her to a mathematics-related field.

Jasmine breaks up with her boyfriend Carter, who becomes possessive and begins making threatening moves toward Ethan.

Leo reconnects by phone with his long-estranged college friend Rod, ending years of silence between them.

Eve searches online for Cherry actuary and immediately finds Cherry Lockwood's identity.

While the main plot covers the headline events, this pool traces how each passenger quietly reorganized their life in response to Cherry's predictions. Sue seeks medical advice, Eve confronts financial reality, Dom fears his own sleepwalking, and Paula drives long distances for swim lessons every week. The investigation into Cherry's identity picks up speed when Allegra's mother makes a key professional deduction and Leo and Ethan crack the mystery of Cherry's brooch. Romantic storylines advance as Allegra commits to both Jonny and a new career, while Ethan faces growing danger from a jealous and volatile ex-boyfriend. The pool ends at the same turning point as Pool 1—Cherry is identified—but through all the smaller, quieter moments that show how confronting mortality reshapes daily life.

How the passengers lived after the predictions.

Ethan boards the flight to Sydney after attending his close friend Harvey's funeral in Hobart.

Cherry's father is struck by lightning and killed while fishing, shaping her lifelong belief in statistical randomness over fate.

Cherry reads the palm of a woman named Suzanne during a kangaroo-counting job, realizing she inherited intuition from her mother.

Cherry's dying mother Mae tells Cherry's fortune, predicting a great love, important notebooks, and a girl whose name begins with B.

Cherry discovers her husband David having an affair with a neighbor, leading to the end of their marriage.

Cherry's husband Ned dies suddenly on a flight from Hobart, and her close friends Jill and Bert die in a car accident the same day.

Cherry reveals she was severely dehydrated and in a grief-induced delirium during the flight when she made her predictions.

Cherry explains how her actuarial training and physical observations of passengers secretly informed each of her death predictions.

Neve presses Leo on what he would truly do if he were going to die at 43, and Leo admits he would quit and move his family back to Tasmania.

Paula discovers that her friend Stephanie is the grieving daughter of Cherry's recently deceased friends Jill and Bert.

Cherry's aqua aerobics friend Mira turns out to be Leo Vodnik's mother, unexpectedly connecting Cherry to one of her predicted victims.

Ethan meets Harvey's cousin Faith at a Sydney bar and immediately feels he has found the love of his life.

Carter drunkenly attacks Ethan, but a seagull flies into Carter's face and allows Ethan, Lila, and Faith to escape.

Cherry finds Ned's notebooks in which he recorded one good thing each day, often listing Cherry herself as that good thing.

Cherry realizes that Bridie, the girl she has been tutoring in math, is the letter-B child her mother predicted would save her after great loss.

This pool reveals the backstory that made Cherry who she is: her father's death by lightning, her fortune-telling mother, her unhappy first marriage, and the devastating loss of her beloved husband Ned and their friends Jill and Bert—the grief that led to her dehydrated delirium on the flight. These revelations explain how Cherry's actuarial instincts, not psychic power, produced her eerily specific predictions. The pool also tracks the emotional turning points of the other characters: Leo's honest confession about what he truly wants from life, the surprising connection that links Paula to Cherry through mutual grief, and the discovery that Cherry's aqua aerobics friend is Leo's own mother. It ends with Cherry finding deep meaning in Ned's notebooks and realizing that her mother's dying prophecy—a girl named B who would give Cherry a reason to live—has been quietly fulfilled.