A tectonic shift deep below the Mariana Trench causes a series of ever escalating earthquakes. If a team of leading seismologists fails to stop the disaster, the events will break apart the Earth, resulting in billions of casualties.
The film follows two prisoners in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.
Near future. Mankind is successfully exploring space: now a huge Delta station is located in the earth's orbit. Maksim Bortnikov is one of the members of the station repair team. An unexpected catastrophe caused by a proton storm cuts off Maksim from the rest, and he is left alone in outer space.