This is the story of four people and how they experienced and dealt with the greatest disaster to ever hit Great Britain as a result of which their lives became entwined.
Jeanette McGuire is a successful businesswoman, Tom Yeo a Westcountry farmer, Brian Galway, a failed businessman travelling on an aircraft from Canada, and Greg Robins a retired builder all had their lives planned out only to find that their futures were to be irreversibly altered by the forces of nature.
We follow them through the traumas of the initial disaster, how they come to terms with it, how their paths merge and their lives change.
Interspersed with the details of their lives, are radio news bulletins and documentary programs informing the reader of the events taking place on a national scale which never-the-less will affect the main characters on a personal level.