Spending a summer with relatives in rural Lake Tecumseh, Indiana feels like punishment to Chicago teen-ager Cameron Meyer. Then he meets Lindsay, the girl of his dreams, and learns of the town's reputation as a hotbed of UFO sightings. Together they investigate whether an alien spacecraft crashed into the lake twenty years earlier. They soon realize some mysteries are best left unsolved. Their quirky research project soon becomes a battle to save the small town from complete destruction