The Smith family from New York are a typical,middle-class family who is about to be thrust into an intergalactic battle between space-aliens who arrived in the form of these giant meteorites,when the patriarch of the family,who is also the narrator of the story,who is sent all over the world by his employer,the local news station,for assignment,but when the send him to Antarctica,to fill in for some sick meteorologists,he and his family go down to the frozen continent,and are soon fighting for their survival when these space-aliens emerge from their frozen, rocky prison and wreak havoc on the base,and now the Smith family must use their wits to survive as "They Came From Beneath the Ice"