In the midst of a manmade biological disaster and a terrible fate, three couples try to find meaning in their lives.

Siblings Ben and Ashley come together 20 years after the murder of their parents to determine the cause of their parents' death. A link between the deaths and the local myth of The Rake is found. Ashley is troubled by the idea that the thing that took her parents' lives may not be finished with her family.

When sudden and massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, the result is unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing American family in Egypt, the Jones', must battle the rapidly cooling temperatures that usher in a new Ice Age, covering the Sphinx, Pyramids, and Sahara Desert with mountains of snow.