Max Bestle

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.

エイミー（スーザン・メイ・プラット）は、生後間もない娘と夫ジェームズ（リチャード・スパイト・ジュニア）とともにメキシコへ向かう。エイミーの昔の恋人ダン（エリック・デイン）にヨット・クルーズに招待された一家は、旧友のザック（ニクラウス・ランゲ）らを交えて海へと出帆するが……。