In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
