After being struck by lightning and surviving, Dr. Bill Matthews recovers in the hospital where he also works. An intern named Dr. Craig Murphy slips him a card, inviting him to a meeting of "people just like us." In this "group," Bill finds other survivors who have all been electrocuted in various ways and survived, just like him. But he soon discovers that the group's members are also all addicted to electric current. And not only does Bill become addicted to it as well, his relationship with the sexy Dr. Murphy deepens, setting a chain of events into shocking motion.