During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.

A young doctor and her daughter are on an overnight flight when several passengers on the half-empty plane suddenly suffer gruesome, inexplicable deaths. The woman begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood.

"Urged by famous airman Ellissen, the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste"--C.f. Internet movie database (viewed June 22, 2004)