It's 2012 and an asteroid is racing towards the planet, threatening to extinguish humanity as we know it. The world's most important astrophysicists, astronomers, and theoretical mathematicians have been taken to a secret location and are desperately working to avoid a catastrophe, but it's only when Billy, a 16-year-old with rare gifts, is recruited to the cause that they can hope to prevail over evil and return themselves--and the Earth--to safety.