Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
Attempting to avoid his obsession over a girl he just lost, a boy enlists the help of a stranger, another girl who leads him on a romantic escapade through the after-hours club scene in Manhattan. Though the girl is as lost and heartbroken over a love affair as the boy, miracles happen, idols crumble and the "strangers" find real love through each other.
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.