The Gardner household strikes to a distant farmstead in rural New England to flee the hustle of the twenty first century. They're busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their entrance yard, melts into the earth, and infects each the land and the properties of space-time with a wierd, otherworldly color. To their horror, the household discovers this alien pressure is step by step mutating each life type that it touches—together with them.