The middle of the Pacific Ocean, 1898. The "S.S. Maori" is the newest ship on the route, the best afloat, and unsinkableNuntil a typhoon brews up, and the ship begins to take on water. Only two people are left on board as the waves threaten to take her, the society girl Margery, and the lowly Englishman from second-class, George. Left alone they have to face their fears when they wash up on an uncharted island, and overcome their differences in order to survive.