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On September 11, 2001, the worst terrorist attack on American soil claimed the lives of 2977 people in New York City and another 125 in the Pentagon. These are the stories of twelve survivors--fire fighters, ambulance workers, defense officials and ordinary office workers who went to work on that sunny day, unaware that their lives were about to be forever changed.

A young nurse is abducted and tortured by a serial killer who has already murdered four other women; a mother and her four year old daughter are trapped in the attic of their house by a flash flood.

After being abducted at knifepoint and gang raped, a seven month pregnant woman has her throat cut and is left to die; a man survives the terrifying crash of a Boeing 737 only to face freezing to death in an icy river; and when an armed man starts executing people inside a warehouse one man has to fight for his life by playing dead.

A 15-year-old girl is abducted and raped by a serial killer. A photographer is trapped under the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the Haitian earthquake. A woman is beaten and slashed with scissors by a neighbor.

A canyoneering trip becomes a terrifying fight for survival when a flash flood launches three men over two massive waterfalls, and a 13-year-old boy is abducted and raped by a serial pedophile before being chained up in a buried box and left to die.

A mother and her two young children are abducted and taken into the Florida Everglades by a crazed attacker; a man is mauled by a hungry bear and fights for his life in the driveway of his holiday cabin.

A store manager and his staff are held up and shot by two killers; an 18-year-old has both his arms torn off in an accident on the family farm; a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer.

On their first date, a young woman and her friend are shot execution style at a deserted reservoir; two strangers' lives collide when they are caught up in a deadly train collision; and during one terror filled evening a 13-year-old escapes from the men who have abducted and assaulted her, only to be assaulted again by another man.

A young woman is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal by a man who forces her to live inside a metal box. Two brothers are struck by lightning on top of the highest mountain in the continental United States. A propane truck driver is attacked while making a delivery but she decides to fight back.

A young mother is attacked and strangled by a man she meets at a party. A snowmobiler survives a series of avalanches but loses eight of his friends. A 14-year-old boy and his best friend are attacked by a 17-year-old who cuts their throats.

Abducted in the trunk of her own car, a woman suffers unimaginable horror at the hands of her three captors. Trapped in the ruins of a tornado ravaged building a young woman prepares to die. And an eight-year-old girl is kidnapped by a man who abuses her, cuts her throat and leaves her to die in a field.

A machete-wielding intruder terrorizes a woman in her apartment; a savage attack by a grizzly bear leaves a man partially scalped and miles from help; and a blindfolded 16-year-old girl fights for her life after being abducted at knifepoint.

A woman and her friend are carjacked and sexually abused. A man and his dogs survive a tornado in Alabama that destroys his house. A nine year old girl is raped, stabbed and kidnapped for three days.

A woman is stabbed over 45 times by a man that broke into her house. A man is trapped for 16 days in his wrecked car down in a deep ravine. Two college freshmen are shot in the head by a carjacker.

A married couple are kidnapped in Mexico after taking their children to school. The husband is imprisoned in a small box for over 225 days while being held for ransom. The wife is left behind to get and pay the ransom.

Two women fight for their lives when an attacker ambushes them on a mountain trail; two men survive 14 hours adrift at sea.

A 14 yr old girl is convinced by a 38 yr old man to run away and she is held captive his bedroom in his parents house for over 10 yrs. A park worker is badly mauled by a mountain lion while hiking. A woman is attacked after work late at night by a stalker that followed her home.

A man's home is set on fire and he is stabbed by two teenage home intruders. A man and 2 others cling to their capsized fishing boat for over 8 days in the Gulf of Mexico. A woman is imprisoned in her car trunk by an armed robber who pushes the car in a lake to kill her.

A 17 yr old woman is taken to a secluded forest and sexually assaulted. A man's hand gets caught in farm equipment. A friend stabs and slashes a 14 yr old girl's throat.

A woman's psychotic boyfriend attacks her with a meat cleaver. A man and his father are dumped in an icy Alaskan river. An intruder sexually assaults a woman and cuts her throat after she gets home from shopping.

A terrified mother is abducted in broad daylight and assaulted by a man who threatens to shoot her baby. A plane crash leaves a man swimming for his life 17 miles from shore. And a young woman must play dead in order to survive.

An 11 year old's PVP addicted father attacks her and the neighbor lady with a steak knife. A contractor working on renovation for a man attacks him with a two by four and a big meat fork.

An ex-boyfriend assaults and shoots a teenage girl. A woman's husband violently attacks and rapes her.

A woman is stabbed 31 times by a customer in the shop where she works. A doctor is kidnapped by an armed sociopath criminal. A couple are hijacked by pirates in their boat off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean.

An eight yr old girl is abducted by a man as she walks home from school. A knife wielding man kidnaps a lady in a busy parking lot. A couple are shot by a man while hiking in the mountains.

A woman is taken hostage by her ex-husband; a man faces agonizing death by fire, covered in gasoline; a man's home is invaded by two masked men who threaten to blind him.

David and Doris Young took hostage 154 people at Cokeville Elementary School in 1986, Three of the survivors, teachers and a student give their account of the tragedy. Ron and Christine give their story of being attacked by a man with a wood machete outside their resort on the beach in Jamaica.

Two people describe how they survived a gunman crashing his truck in the cafe they were in and then madly shooting everyone there. He killed 23 and wounded 20. It was the largest mass shooting at the time. A woman survives her ex boyfriend's brutal attack with a pry bar due to his jealousy of her current relationship.

A woman survives being choked and raped by a new friend that hid his criminal past. A young mother survives over 25 stab wounds from her ex-boyfriend.

A woman is viciously attacked by a motorist she offered to help. A wife and mother is violated in her bedroom in the night by a masked intruder. A robber slices through the young worker's neck at the convenience mart and leaves her to die.

Laurie wakes up while being struck in the head repeatedly by an intruder. Sandra is attacked and stabbed while walking home from a night class. Melinda's apartment is invaded on a Sunday morning by a man who had her roommate's keys. Melinda manages to escape, leading to the capture of the man who may have been the most prolific serial killer in North American history.