Dreams collide in a small cafe in the California desert when a man and a woman must decide whether or not to gamble on an uncertain future.

The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."

A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general.

In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has other plans for her.