Jill Peters is a troubled woman. She and her husband Jim are on a cross country trip from California to Florida in order to move in with her ailing father to take care of him. In eastern Kansas they end up in the path of a violent tornado and are forced to take refuge in an abandoned farmhouse. It is here that Jill must face her fears if she is to save her husband and herself. And when all looks lost, she gets a little help from an unlikely source.