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On their manner back home, avert and his spouse, Linda, listen to a radio broadcast informing all and sundry that the closing-ditch effort to store humankind has failed. regrettably, the 70-mile-wide asteroid called Matilda is set to collide with Earth in exactly 3 weeks. regardless of the tragic news, steer clear of tries to remain calm and just factors out that they missed their exit. because of this, Linda looks at steer clear of in disbelief earlier than walking away with out a unmarried phrase, leaving him for good. With 21 days left till the asteroid hits, keep away from's existence maintains without a unmarried blip in his routine due to the fact human beings react differently to tragedy. a few humans even commenced offering assassination services for folks that don't want to await the give up of the sector. at the same time as he's at the health club, ward off watches a news update that cell services are dead while power and water are quickly to be shut off as properly. although, stay away from still drives lower back to work notwithstanding traffic becoming worse than regular. At work, sidestep, who's an coverage salesman, attends a assembly where their agency is just giving freely top control govt positions. avert and his co-people all react otherwise to the state of affairs, but it is obvious that all of them sense hopeless. while he gets back home to his condo complicated, evade assessments his mailbox however sees it empty. Then, while he goes to his unit, he hears a person vacuuming inside. evade immediately assumes it is Linda, but it is simply their weekly cleanser, Elsa. She greets him with a smile, so he asks her to stay to observe tv, however she with courtesy refuses. due to the modern-day kingdom of the sector, sidestep tells Elsa now not to come back lower back subsequent week, however she doesn't react nicely to the firing. So, avoid takes it returned, wondering that Elsa would possibly be oblivious to the asteroid state of affairs, or she simply would not want to think about it. Elsa then leaves but tells him that she'll be back subsequent week. After being left on my own, stay away from watches extra updates and sees that airways are now not in provider, and the very last flight has taken off. the following day, avoid is going to paintings with spider bites on his face. Then, a person jumps to his loss of life and lands on sidestep's vehicle, leaving him terrified. With 14 days left, steer clear of goes to a party thrown with the aid of his pal, Warren, and his wife, Diane. when Diane greets him on the door, she straight away comments about Linda, noting how she by no means seemed happy with him. sadly, it really is something that dodge in no way noticed. due to the fact avert is now single, Diane plans to set him up along with her buddy, however he is not too fond of the concept. alternatively, Warren simply offers him a especially exceptional cigar, which he accepts. Diane tells her husband that dodge desires to satisfy somebody in any other case he will die alone, however Warren disagrees, saying that sidestep isn't going to die by myself because he's going to die with the relaxation of the arena. nonetheless, Diane introduces him to Karen, who's dressed to the nines due to the fact she desires to put on the garments she hasn't worn yet. all through dinner, everyone shares their plans for their final days, and Karen expresses how lots she likes ward off. Later that night, the party grows wilder to the point that Warren even urges the kids to drink alcohol. on the other hand, Karen is still looking to get with ward off, who's ignoring her advances. instead, he talks to some other friend, Roache, who tells him about all his escapades with exclusive girls for the reason that announcement of the stop of the world. He even asks ward off to have amusing with him and Karen, however evade isn't into that sort of aspect. Then, while his friends begin doing hard capsules, steer clear of chooses to hide within the bathroom. Moments later, Diane comes to check up on dodge. Then, much to avert's marvel, Diane starts to kiss him. So, he speedy pushes her away, pointing out that she's married to his friend. but, Diane disagrees, pronouncing that no one belongs to each person anymore. stay clear of finally ends up going home early to reminisce approximately his vintage life. He looks at a photograph of him and his high faculty sweetheart, Olivia, and begins to play the harmonica. Then, suddenly, he sees a woman crying with the aid of the hearth break out. while keep away from exams up on her, she at once begins bawling in his hands in spite of not knowing him. as it turns out, the lady, Penny, is evade’s downstairs neighbor. aside from these days breaking up with her boyfriend, she also missed her flight and now has no means of having again domestic. ward off invites her in, in order that they introduce themselves to every different. After that, Penny takes a sip of keep away from's cough syrup with codeine and vodka then offers him a few weed, but he declines. Penny then tells him that the substance enables with her awful slumbering routine due to her hypersomnia, noting that she can sleep through the apocalypse. That night, Penny falls asleep on keep away from's sofa. positive sufficient, she does not awaken even when the television is playing loudly, and Elsa is vacuuming in the front of her. avert even pinches her nose, but Penny would not pass an inch. Moments later, Penny wakes up, so avert walks her downstairs. As they come at Penny's region, she fingers him his misplaced letters that mistakenly were given put in her mailbox, noting that she kept them for years. Penny additionally asks ward off approximately Linda, wondering that she's his roommate. She says she seemed so happy with her boyfriend, revealing that she used to carry a guy over to their rental with out steer clear of’s information. due to this revelation, avoid is going again to his condominium and angrily disposes of Linda's property. He then goes to a park to drown his sorrows with a bottle of window purifier. however despite the try to take his existence, evade nonetheless wakes up day after today, simplest to find an abandoned dog tied to his foot and a paper that just says "Sorry." Going lower back home, he notices mayhem breaking out in the streets but ignores it. Moments later, even as stay away from is looking the information approximately a massive revolt, he reads the lost mail that Penny gave lower back to him and sees a confession letter from Olivia dated months in the past. Then, all at once, a brick is thrown through his window from the rebel outside. He attempts to go out but hears a commotion in the hallway, so he leaves via the fire escape instead. He brings alongside Sorry, the dog, and heads down to Penny's rental. There, evade encounters Owen, Penny's ex-boyfriend, who straight away assumes that he's sleeping with Penny. a chunk aggravated, sidestep ignores him to wake up Penny and warn her about the riots, but Owen is making an attempt to get in his way. evade additionally tells them to move fast and leave, however Penny is adamant approximately bringing some of her music statistics with her. Penny gives to drive as they are trying to get away the contemporary disorder, however they discover hassle finding her car. a few humans then start firing their weapons, so Owen uses Penny as a human protect to shield himself. when they get to her vehicle, Penny struggles using away because she's stuck in a parallel parking space. Owen is going out to help her, but he starts berating Penny for no longer doing it properly. dodge, who just wants to depart, tells Penny that he is aware of a person with a aircraft. He says he can take Penny to her circle of relatives if she manages to get him out of there, so Penny simply recklessly drives away with out Owen. They run out of gas tomorrow, so that they quit up walking down the street. due to their modern state of affairs, tensions upward thrust, and they begin arguing. avoid says Penny ruined his existence, blaming her for now not getting Olivia's letter in time. Penny starts feeling responsible due to that, so she promises to assist him discover his lost love. She then hails an oncoming vehicle and asks the motive force, Glen, to take them to Somerset, and the type guy gives them a boost. On the road, Penny makes Glen share his existence story, so he confesses that he turned into planning on killing himself after studying about the give up of the arena. but, he mentions that doing that might not get him into heaven. Then, while Glen is speakme, avoid notices that he has shovels at the returned of his truck, which makes him suspicious. Moments later, Glen pulls over to take a leak and invites ward off to include him, but he refuses.