California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. What's more, his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty, hostile environment. Alone and without human contact for days on end, he listens continuously to a talk-show on the only local radio station. The host, a man named Eddy, takes calls from listeners who share their thoughts on a child killer at large in the area. At the same time, Sam starts getting psychologically harassed by strange threats he receives on his pager. Gradually, people begin to reappear and attempt to kill him. Sam has become a target and he must now defend himself. Little by little he loses it, caught up in a paranoid identity crisis. Is he truly the killer they're after, or is he being driven ...

这是一个关于等待不可能的故事。这是一只年幼的小兔子，他还不懂得生命的规则，试图与最强大的势力斗争。随着他的长大，他对生命了解得越来越多。

魁北克住着一位极有名望的教授，尼古拉·吉蒙。如今他年事已高，记忆减退，弯腰驼背。身为医生，是无法对自己的身体状况撒谎的。如果有人问他，今天的日子有什么特别之处时，他会说，失眠，十一点准时入睡，两个小时之后再次醒来，如此反复。面对生活琐事他感到一丝厌倦，然而，他热爱教学。这一天，一个女人的忽然拜访，拿出了十分具有纪念意义的物件，让吉蒙教授想到了他年轻时的往事。他遇到了年轻教授吕丝，他还遇到了吕丝的女儿，一家人从此生活在了一起。生活总会有矛盾碰撞，面对青春期的孩子，使他与夫人之间产生了隔阂，然而人生还有很长的路要走。

李维斯科全家聚在一起享用圣诞晚餐。所有的谈话都围绕一个话题：令老人难以忍受的帕金森氏病情恶化。在各种意见和争吵中，他的儿子安德烈和孙子山姆决定缩短他的痛苦，以便让他摆脱束缚，尽情享受生活。

洛杉矶的一个家庭在历史上重大灾难的汇合中分开了：一个超级火山、一次特大地震和一次大规模龙卷风。当世界经受住这场几乎世界末日的事件时，我们的英雄们必须坚持自己的技能和智慧来团结和生存下去。