During a meteor shower in Smallville, Kansas, two farmers, Jonathan and Martha Kent, find an alien baby in a spaceship. They decide to adopt and raise the boy, renaming him Clark and discovering his superhuman-like powers. Years later, a teenage Clark Kent takes his first steps towards his destiny, developing new powers, beginning a friendship with both young billionaire Lex Luthor and his life-long crush Lana Lang and discovering a weakness in the meteor rocks themselves, and the bizarre effects they have on humans. Now he must face a group of these "Meteor Freaks", as he discovers the extraterrestrial origin of his powers.