Gus DeVries is a retired, seventy-three year old geologist that has worked in southern Oklahoma for fifty years searching and finding oil and gas fields. His expertise of what's under the ground in that area is second to none. What he knows is under the ancient Arbuckle Mountains is not frightening nor is it new knowledge, except when it begins to make rumblings of rearing what some might call its ugly head, others its beautiful head, bringing about a geologic change to the region that naturally occurs only about every one hundred million years or so. It becomes known as THE EVENT. When Gus tells what he believes might happen, of THE EVENT coming true, people laugh and ridicule him. But, earthquakes begin to shake the mountain area. Natural water springs begin to boil and put off steam. Is fracking for new oil and gas deposits the blame for what is happening? Is it just a natural occurrence whose time has come? Is it a combination of both? Is what Gus saying going to happen? Thousands are scared, yet clamor to be there and see THE EVENT when and if it happens. Some face possible death to see it, defying the law and Mother Nature to get a very close look. Oklahoma Governor Martha Hobby seeks Gus's advice when his predictions begin to happen. Together, they make life and death decisions that will affect thousands.