Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose relationship with his wife has gone sour; he ponders having an affair with attractive flight attendant Hattie Durham. During a flight to London, a number of their passengers mysteriously disappear, and chaos takes hold as a number of vehicles on the ground and in the air are suddenly unmanned. Meanwhile, television journalist Buck Williams is pondering the rash of sudden disappearances as he works on a report about Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli scientist who has devised a formula that would make any soil on earth easy to cultivate. However, Buck wonders if there's more to Rosenzweig when he discovers that the doctor is in cahoots with two multi-millionaires who plan to broker the invention to promote their own agenda of international domination.—Anonymous