As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
A team of archaeologists heads toward a 'hot zone' in Antarctica, finding the site of a whaling operation abandoned for unknown reasons in the early 1900's. The explorers are soon trapped in a violent battle between two interplanetary creatures, the so-called "Alien" and "Predator."