In South America a U.S businessman and adventurer captures a humanoid ichthyosaur, and the local dictator plans to use it to bring tourists to the area. However, the creature--and a school of creatures like it--have plans of their own.

Life inmate Chino Rivera volunteers for a teleportation experiment as scientists make contact with an alien planet ten years away, and whose inhabitants want to exchange high-ranking officials ... once they exchange test subjects to make sure the teleportation process works.