Archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father so she abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. At the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah's Ark--the artifact her father had been searching for--and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain he collapses and with his dying breath he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke, a man she's never heard of. She is able to track him down and he agrees to help her uncover the secret behind Noah's Ark and her father's disappearance. They realize they only have seven days to find the Ark before its secret is to wipe out civilization.