A team of elite soldiers is called into action to stop a weapons designer and the evil Cobra organization from unleashing deadly threats on the world.

Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.