A dark, mysterious and ‘innocuous’ alien substance has slowly taken root in the world. Hank, a failed football star turned-high-school science teacher, has blamed the Ick all these years for his limp. When the Ick eventually evolves and attacks, he chooses to save the life of a student he suspects may be his daughter above the lives of all the other possessed and panicked students. It’s hysteria through several grotesque scenes that he triumphs to become the hero he was meant to be.