Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously
possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the
widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her father, Sam
Royce, who is Stuart's employer, to use his influence to stop Stuart
from seeing Denise. Rogue policeman Lew Slade is suspended from the
L.A.P.D. for having punched an obtuse officer from another jurisdiction.
Embittered, Slade contemplates quitting the police force. Jody, a
perverted grocery store manager, lusts after Rosa Amici, sister of Sal,
the assistant to Miles Quade, an aspiring daredevil motor cyclist. The
lives of all these people are devastated when a major earthquake rips
through Los Angeles and reduces the city to ruins.