A part-time student working at a resort restaurant in beautiful Italy is hired by her boss to be his fiancé for the holidays, so he can avoid getting married. Things get complicated when she begins to have genuine feelings for him.

An asteroid shower lands in a remote section of the Grand Canyon and begins to spread mysterious pods. Meanwhile, scientists on a space station that has been hit by the same asteroid shower, discover that a pod has mutated into a creature and is threatening the ship. Now the scientists and a team on Earth must learn to defeat this alien force, fighting fire with fire, fighting stone with stone.