Dustin, an aspiring painter meets this woman named Christiane. Dustin is on a search for love, sex, and inspiration. When Christiane dumps him and disapears as quickly as she dropped in, Dustin embarks on an obsessive search in Southern California to search for her.

When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. Environmentalist priest Father Douglas Middleton must team up with conference coordinator Khali Spence to stop the slime -- or die trying.

在捕鱼社区里，有些东西把鱼吓走了，因此当地政府找专家来查明真相。当科学家到达后，人们就开始失踪，而只发现它们部份的尸体。 会不会是湖里的一只史前巨大鱿鱼乾的呢？ 或者有更合理的解释吗？