Seventeen people who wear pacemakers in New York City all die suddenly... A flock of birds in England suddenly go insane... And a Space Shuttle almost crashes into downtown Los Angeles. Professor Josh Keyes is the one man who traces these seemingly disparate disasters to a single cause: The magnetic core of the planet has stopped rotating, which means that all life on Earth will cease to exist within a year's time! Now, Keyes must lead a ragtag team of scientists in an experimental vessel piloted by a maverick NASA pilot to make a real-life journey to the center of the Earth -- with the fate of the world at stake!