A Rússia está a sendo aterrorizada por uma bruxa má conhecida como Baba Yaga; o único que não tem medo dela é Bartok, o Magnífico. Bartok, um morcego albino, acaba de chegar em Moscou e está impressionando a todos com suas performances, incluindo o príncipe Ivan Romanov. No entanto, uma pessoa não está impressionada; Ludmilla encontra Bartok chato e ingênuo. Depois do show de Bartok, um urso violento de repente o ataca. Bartok deve salvar todos atordoando o urso e, em seguida, prende-lo em um vagão.
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?
