On a night flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers fall into a deep sleep shortly after takeoff. When they wake up during the flight, they are horrified to find that they are the only passengers on board the jumbo jet, which was still fully occupied when it took off. There is neither a pilot nor a crew. A bizarre situation. Brian Engle, a private pilot, takes control of the plane. Since no radio contact is possible, he flies to the nearest airport, Bangar Maine. Everything is extinct there. The air without smell, the food without taste, no sound. Only Dinah, a blind girl, hears a distant rolling sound....