Paula Bond

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.

A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.