The Worlds Greatest Desert, Now a Frozen Apocalypse. When sudden and massive earthquakes open a tectonic plate, the result is unstable weather and freezing temperatures that, at night, become impossible to survive. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing American family in Egypt must battle the rapidly cooling temperatures that usher in a new Ice Age, covering the Sphinx, Pyramids, and Sahara Desert with mountains of snow. Age Of Ice is an apocalyptic disaster movie of epic proportions.