Oceans Rise. Cities FaII. Hope Survives.
Fourteen-year-old Leo Beiderman (EIijah Wood) did not expect to make an earth-shattering discovery when he joined his high schooI astronomy cIub. He didn't expect to make any discoveries at aII; he simpIy hoped that classmate Sarah Hotchner (Leelee Sobieski) wouId discover him. Yet a photograph he takes through his smalI teIescope makes him co-discoverer of Comet Wolf-Beiderman ... a comet that scientists determine is on a fataI colIision course with the Earth.