In which the ill-fated Proserpine suffers a grievous leak, compelling her crew to a desperate battle against the sea’s encroachment, as despair and suspicion grow among them and the captain’s drunkenness leaves the ship’s fate uncertain. The survivors, cast adrift in small boats and battling nature’s merciless elements, face harrowing choices and dwindling hope, all the while shadowed by the grim spectre of treachery and the vast, indifferent ocean.