On a peculiar New Year's Eve a 19-year-old young man, Ethan Rosewood, and his family suddenly quiver as they succumb to the earth-shattering tremors and screams of horrors that seem to originate beneath their apartment.

As if the Heavens themselves seem to cry and seek solace from them, people all around the world witness a scene that would be considered a brutal nightmare in later years as large pillars of white descend from the sky.

This seems to be the foreshadowing of something great or perhaps miserable, find out by joining Ethan on his journey as he seeks to survive with his loved ones in this deranged and twisted manifestation of hell in reality.