Michael (John Stockwell), a high school senior, and his friend Ellie (Danielle von Zerneck) scavenge a mysterious object from a military scrapyard for Michael to use in a science project. Soon after, the try to figure out what the object does, and find that it propels the entire student population into another dimension, and with a capacity for destruction the world has never known. Can Michael and Ellie fix their mistake and save humanity?