When Tom, a stubbornly sage American doctor arrives in France, no experience in his illustrious life has prepared him for the untimely death of his adventurous son Daniel.
Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an ambitious news reporter is assigned by her editor George Morgan (Martin Sheen) to investigate the brutal kidnapping, torture and slaying of young factory women in the Mexican bordertown of Ciudad Jurez .
In this modern version of Shakespeare's 'Othello', Odin James is the black star of the basketball team at an otherwise white boarding school. He is headed for big time with his sport.
It is December 7, 1980 and the nuclear carrier, U.S.S. Nimitz is on routine exercises in the Pacific when it is hit by a freak electrical storm that warps the time space continuum and sends the ship back in time.