Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans to Midway Island where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the fiercest battles of the war. They're in a race against time to find at least one of the downed aircraft carriers including the U.S.S. Yorktown.

The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse, until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.