Michael Stone and his wife Sarah and their ten-year-old daughter Ronnie sail in a medical boat, Veronica, in the remote Pacific. Their duty is to attend the distress calls from the passing by ships or tankers, and in other time they visit remote isolated islands and atolls to tend the needs of poor. While they are sailing towards Pulo Helena (a chain of atolls) to help the poor living in the fales, they get a distress call from a massive tanker bound for China, carrying LNG. Sarah and Ronnie go to attend that ship in their medical boat while Michael runs towards a fale where an old man is dying. The old man having sailed for one thousand miles reaches to this atoll only to find it deserted. Thus, he commits his own killing by thrusting a knife in his flank. By the time Michael could do anything miraculous, the old passes away. On the other hand, Sarah and Ronnie find themselves being deceived by the call from the tanker. They have to cure and nurse an old man who has receive...
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