Based on the 2012 phenomenon, its plot follows numerous characters, including novelist jackson curtis (cusack) and geologist adrian helmsley (ejiofor), as they struggle to survive an eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, megatsunamis, and a global flood. The film is about a global cataclysmic event that is bringing an end to the world in the year 2012 and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors. The great disasters of the galactic alignment in 2012 were supposed to have occurred on december 21st, the day of the solstice
The filmmakers decided to move those events up a few months, to midsummer. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world. When a flood of natural disasters begins to destroy the world, a divorced dad desperately tries to save his family by outrunning the cataclysmic chaos
When a series of cataclysmic natural disasters strike across the globe, a writer tries to save his family as world leaders race to save humanity. While the world's leaders race to build arks to escape the impending cataclysm, curtis struggles to find a way to save his family
