讲述一架在布鲁塞尔的航班起飞后，此时太阳活动突变令到被照射到的生物通通死亡，因此有幸逃过一劫的飞机试图向西面飞去以躲在黑暗中。航班上包括富豪﹑穷人﹑年轻人﹑老人﹑平民﹑军人等，他们只有一个目标：在这太阳浩劫下幸存……问题有些人为此可是会不择手段。

Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Based on the book by Walter Tevis.

Eight strangers from around the globe suddenly begin to communicate telepathically, but soon discover their gift also makes them targets.