Donny Weston and Abby Marshall find that sailing a 40-ft ketch across the English Channel to France isn't the quiet romantic interlude between University semesters they were anticipating. A third member of the crew is not what he seems, smuggling forbidden objects. Arousing the suspicions of the young couple, the smuggler determines that he must kill the two lovers, but fails to accomplish the deed. Suddenly, the adventure becomes very serious as the action accelerates and the mysterious smuggler's employers try to recover the illicit goods from the young people. As the attempts to kill them accelerate, Donny and Abby find themselves in a vortex of violence, drugs, money and gangsters. Action becomes hectic and the couple are plunged into a series of events that will prove fatal unless aid from the mysterious Jonathon Glynn arrives in time. But what is his motive and will he act in time?