In Lincoln, Nebraska, cancer researcher Jason Randolph and his geologist friend, Don Jennings, decide to search for life in a meteorite the geologist found in Antarctica years before. What's the worst that can happen? Everybody tried it, from NASA to the Russians, and nobody found a thing, until Randolph discovers the virus and it gets loose. Unwilling to admit the truth, Randolph is reluctant to tell the world a simple fact: He had inadvertently released a living nightmare threatening not only mankind and all life on Earth, but the stability of the planet itself. Once the genetic mutations begin, Randolph and Jennings try to make hay