The year was 1950, the place, somewhere on the Pacific Ocean, and the outlook… not so great. Private investigator, Toby Grant, and his wife Pam, think they’ve taken on a cushy assignment. They were to transport a load of supposedly phony diamonds to Hong Kong as a decoy to the real shipment. Things were peachy until someone murdered the crew and smashed the radio. Worse, the old World War II passenger/freighter, without any sailors, was about to sail into a wicked storm. Miraculously, the ship survived, but from then on, everything went downhill: