Our reckless and uninhibited contamination of the planet's five oceans has now reached dangerous levels, a starting point for Ms. Irving's terrifying presentiments described in Noel. Starting off in a maritime disaster from hell itself, radiation floods into the already corrupted water of the Trash Vortex in the northern Pacific Ocean. It had been the final ingredient missing in that horrible soup, triggering a very dangerous effect: another kind of intelligent life was born out there. Humankind's inadvertent answer to God's only begotten son, this millennial Frankenstein then wreaks havoc on the natural world. While the surviving characters from Thanksgiving valiantly try to save the world, a biblical apocalypse closes in on them. On all of us, and the healing embrace of any savior may never be returned.