In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.
某年某月，沉睡超过三百年的冰岛拉基火山爆发，造成超过六百万人丧生，而随之喷出的火山灰席卷英伦乃至欧洲大陆，致令欧洲版块83%受影响。在此之后，20亿吨的火山灰遍布欧洲上空，按照某科学家的预测，拉基火山将导致板块连锁反应，引起一连串的火山喷发。与此同时，高温先是造成极地冰块融化，海平面上升，而浓浓的火山灰遮挡太阳，又致令温度骤降。冰雹、暴雪席卷世界各地，人类即将进入新一轮的冰河时期。 身处各国的不同之人，原本经营着平凡的生活，当此灾难来临之际，他们的友情、爱情、亲情以及生命即将接受最严苛的考验……
The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...
阿克曼博士是当地一所大学的生物老师，他在被不明飞行物追赶时遇到了意外的死亡。韦斯利，他的一个学生，在吸引女性方面有困难。这一切都发生了变化，当Xenobia女士接管了阿克曼的课程，并说服卫斯理参加一些维生素研究，她和她的助理Drax正在进行。突然，韦斯利变得很有魅力，尽管在兴奋的时候，他的脑袋里长出了肉质的天线。他新发现的成功可能会疏远他真正关心的那个女孩(Leeanne)，而Xenobia的动机可能与她不是这个地球的事实有关。
在不远的将来，一名男子深入柏林阴暗的地下世界，寻找自己失踪的女友。虽然他无法说话，但在这个危机四伏的地方，行动远胜千言万语。
