In 1939 with the threat of World War II soon to become a reality the luxury cruise liner, the Queen Mary, is dramatically transformed into a wartime troop transport ship.
A British ship captain accepts his wartime assignment on the Queen Mary, and his strong-willed daughter , passionate about contributing to the war effort, talks her way aboard.
A young Boston doctor , distraught over a nightclub fire questions his future.
In Lithuania the Japanese Ambassador, sympathetic to the persecution of the Jews, places himself in harm's way to help them.
A J ewish engineer and his wife in Vilna, Lithuania attempt a harrowing escape from the pit, just the beginning of their long and dangerous journey.
These lives are all connected by one voyage of the legendary ship, the Queen Mary .
With German U-boats hunting her, a catastrophic collision, a fierce storm and a Nazi bounty of $250,000, this marvelous British ship, the Queen Mary, zig-zags a path through these lives.
Will any of them be able to survive the perilous passages that they would not have chosen?.