After a year, President of the United States, Thomas Wilson, met with other world leaders to make preparations in order to save humanity by constructing arks at the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk, Nima was evacuated while his brother Tenzin worked in the arks. As additional funding, tickets to the arks were sold to private citizens for €1 billion per person.
In 2012, fiction writer and part-time limousine driver to Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov, Jackson Curtis, picked up his children, Noah and Lily, from his ex-wife, Kate’s boyfriend, Gordon’s house. He took them camping to the Yellowstone National Park only to find out that the lake already dried up and that a military headquarter was put up.
They were taken to the headquarter and Jackson was recognized by Dr. Helmsey who read his book Farewell Atlantis. On their way from the headquarter, they were stopped by Charlie Frost, a science conspiracy theorist who has his own radio talk show, and asked them about the military activity. That night, Charlie told Jackson about the 2012 phenomenon and even about a map, where arks were being constructed, in his possession.
Jackson and his children arrived home right after a bad earthquake. Seeing his employer Yuri Karpov and his two sons getting on an airplane, Jackson became suspicious and rented a Cessna 340 and called Kate to get the children ready as he was picking them up. Earthquake shook the city even before Jackson came. They were able to go away with Gordon flying the Cessna.
Jackson decided to go back to Yellowstone to get the map from Charlie. Charlie died from a blast while Jackson made it with his family and got the map from