Young partisan resistance fighter commander Franc Sever Franta faces an impossible task when he has to rescue 500 freedom fighters surrounded and outnumbered by a Nazi German division high in the mountains in harsh winter condition.
Giving an insight into a little-known and prematurely forgotten period in Slovenia's recent history, the film chronicles the establishment and rise of a Slovenian shipping corporation, weaving in the memories of the then seamen, who had the right amount of naval knowledge and a need for adventure to sail every sea and ocean of the world.