Using the tornado as a metaphor for contemporary male/female relationships, 'The Coriolis Effect' is a human comedy which unfolds as a meteorological meditation on love, infidelity and extreme weather conditions.Along the way, they meet a twister of a sort they never expected; beautiful; and mysterious Ruby; a female nature seeking answers of her own within the tornado. This volatile combination of personalities question: is the leap into the vortex of a tornado, like the leap into love, certain death' or transcendence?