Outside a Confederate prison camp in Virginia, the Civil War rages, night approaches, a storm brews, and five souls with nothing in common but the will to survive prepare an escape. The diverse group: Union Captain Cyrus Smith, the African-American slave, Neb, widowed nurse Jane Spillet \, her teenage daughter Helen (Danielle Calvert, Oscar Charlie).

Castaways must battle to survive against untold terrors when they land on an uncharted island.