The film followed the desperate efforts of the establishment to curtail the ravages of a swarm of killer bees. The bees have an impressive run, taking out a train, a schoolyard full of kids, a military base, and a nuclear power plant before being lured out to sea and burned by an ignited oil slick. The moral of the film seemed to be, "When faced with a swarm of killer bees, don't routinely dismiss the only person who knows squat about killer bees."