On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as the dome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out. 2012過(guò)后的某一年,10月21日上午11點(diǎn)44分,一個(gè)巨大的透明穹頂從天而降,將緬因小城切斯特磨坊鎮(zhèn)罩在底下,有些不巧處于穹頂邊緣的人和動(dòng)物被當(dāng)場(chǎng)砸死,剛剛上天的飛機(jī)也被撞爛。穹頂宛如倒扣的玻璃魚缸,將小鎮(zhèn)與...On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as the dome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out. 2012過(guò)后的某一年,10月21日上午11點(diǎn)44分,一個(gè)巨大的透明穹頂從天而降,將緬因小城切斯特磨坊鎮(zhèn)罩在底下,有些不巧處于穹頂邊緣的人和動(dòng)物被當(dāng)場(chǎng)砸死,剛剛上天的飛機(jī)也被撞爛。穹頂宛如倒扣的玻璃魚缸,將小鎮(zhèn)與外面的世界隔絕開來(lái)。面對(duì)這天降橫禍,鎮(zhèn)民們分成了兩派,一方努力尋找災(zāi)禍的根源,另一方卻想趁機(jī)完全控制鎮(zhèn)子。殊不知,就在小鎮(zhèn)內(nèi)部激烈斗爭(zhēng)的時(shí)候,穹頂之外出現(xiàn)了更強(qiáng)大的力量,在這種力量面前,所有人的生命,不過(guò)是渺小的螻蟻。(展開)