 After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug "Sea Star" takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton ( Donald Sutherland  (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew believes their troubles are over and they are set for life when the captain informs them of the value of salvaging this apparent ghost-ship. However, the navigator Kit Foster ( Jamie Lee Curtis  (qv)) and the chief engineer Steve Baker ( William Baldwin  (qv)) are not convinced that it will be that easy. Once power is restored to the ship strange things start to happen and the crew mysteriously disappear one by one. It isn t until the discovery of the last remaining Russian crew member, the chief science officer Nadia Vinogradiya ( Joanna Pacula  (qv)), that the crew realise the enemy ranged against them isn t the Russians but something far more malevolent...