A violent solar flare blasts the earth destroying the power girds and knocking out all communication satellites. Modern conveniences are gone. Chaos erupts around the world Lights Out follows a small group of people through the nightmare that their lives have become. They have no electricity or running water. The phones don't work. All forms of authority including the police have been rendered useless. Looters, gangs, and gun toting vigilantes have hit the streets. The world as they know it is gone and they have been forced to live in a world where they have to fight to stay alive. Will they...

Jake Connelly is a prominent attorney in LA fervently working on a capital murder case. He's certain his client, Tom McGuire is innocent, but evidence at the crime scene says he's not. With the odds of winning stacked against him he's hit with a forced vacation. The government is shutting down the electrical grids for a week to try to save them from a powerful solar flare, or so they say. Jake finds out from his sister Marlene that the satellites are carrying a chemical called Project Wormwood. It was invented to thwart terrorists eating at the brain until all that's left is mush. The victim...