The millennium turns and the world is overdue for an apocalypse. As it turns out, a Peruvian with a crush on a prophet has tricked the ghosts of the world's greatest philosophers. Judgment Day has been postponed by 2,000 years. But the angels aren't taking any chances, so they have already booked eight specimens of humanity -- philosophical Carlotta, street-smart Gustavo, libertine Pablo, morose Andr�s, sweet Miriam, passionate Teresa, tough Joshua, and loyal Penelope -- to sleep in a giant Leviathan for hundreds of millions of years, and wake up in the future to repopulate Earth.