The story is about an aliens that live quietly on the ocean floor until they are pelled to destroy humanity after their e-system is disrupted by pollution. Scientists race to stave off an apocalypse. The book was a huge bestseller in Germany and other European untries. While the likes of Al Gore's "An Innvenient Truth" trying to stir ncerns about the environment, "The Swarm" bees the latest in a growing number of films based on the philosophy that there will be payback for mankind's abuses of the pla.