It happens without warning. All electrical devices are abruptly shut down. Dark, unearthly clouds form over cities and towns from which lightning strikes and vaporizes its victims. Food and water are suddenly contaminated, causing a bacterial infection that kills within the hour. Ominous robed figures sweep the cities and landscapes, vaporizing everyone in sight. As the nightmarish events continue to unfold, the grim reality becomes clear that by day's end mankind will be extinct.