Burning rocks, scalding flows of hot ash and thunderous torrents of mud are the lethal enemy in a race against time for Volcanologist Russel Walker. Risking his own life in order to save 2 children trapped in a burning house, Russel reunites the children with their grateful parents but blames himself for 25,000 other villagers who didn?t have enough warning to escape. Now he faces an opportunity to redeem himself when an experimental new device he invented shows evidence of an eruption on a vacation island not know to have a volcano. However, the town mayor refuses to believe the warnings for fear of a tourist panic. Suddenly, Russel?s worst fear is realized and he finds himself stranded with a dozen local townspeople in the path of a fiery lava flow with only one chance for survival. The volcano has erupted?