Josh, the youngest son of an ethnically mixed family, is propelled into a dynamic situation, when he is befriended by an MIT professor. The same professor, who happens to be the lead scientist working on a secret multi-government project called, "Barren Serenity" (reverse engineering downed alien space crafts.) When Professor Michaels becomes aware of Josh's unique ability with machines, he recruits him, in hopes of unlocking the alien vessel's technology. Josh's nightmarish visions of humanity's future suddenly becomes terrifying reality, when an experiment conducted in the machine Josh built, (via the alien technology) goes horribly wrong. Earth and the entire solar system are perilously confronted with the threat of extinction from...the "Devil's Eye."