Kimo believes that a little wooden carving of an ancient Hawaiian god followed him home, and that now it is making all his unkindest wishes come true--and while no one else believes him, his family and friends are facing a lot of bad luck.
Herb Yoshida has been working on a formula for killing cockroaches, but one night he disappears, and his two sons get a threatening message that he has been kidnapped by a tribe of intelligent giant alien cockroaches.