Maxwell Carter, Max to just about everyone, is stuck working the only job he could find in the area where he lives that will cover all of his bills. The government energy research facility needs maintenance workers, after all, as well as scientists. The previous forms of the research being performed here proved to be dangerous, so they're working with a smaller version of the original while located in the middle of nowhere. If they succeed, they believe that they'll have an endless source of cheap energy that they can convert to electricity and feed to the grid. Unfortunately for them, their shielding efforts for the project were inadequate and the wormhole generated to produce the power began to spill energy into the surrounding area. They tried to regain containment of it as the energy spread, but the new energy started to affect the surrounding area it was flooding. As the local wildlife began to change, and then scientists and other workers at the labs started dying to strange incidents that seemed ...