In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, for Tonga with four men on board. After a freak wave turned the boat upside down, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island. 带上足够的工具去旅行,然后你有可能从灾难中逃脱。 船長約翰與船員吉姆、瑞克和菲爾,航行前往東加王國。途中,船隻遭遇巨浪翻覆,在無法求救的狀況下,四人想盡辦法在海上求生,祈禱能有路過的船隻或飛機發現他們。一天天過去,絕望與恐懼漸漸侵襲,有人陷入恐慌,有人變得脾氣暴躁;但也認知到唯有團結合作,才能在孤立無援的海上生存下去…