A jazz-club sax player (Jack Wagner) sees his ex-lover (Tracy Scoggins) in Buenos Aires, with her mobster husband.

An alien life form lands on earth and begins to feed off electricity, making it grow to enormous size. The authorities must stop it as it slithers cross-country towards a nuclear power plant.

Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.