Description
A bullet narrowly misses Ed Jenkins when entering his workplace, one week before his retirement, and then is informed of his best friend's accident the previous night where Ed Jenkins was scheduled to accompany him. He visualizes himself walking on the white sandy beach with his wife, Jane, drinking their morning coffee while enjoying the sunrise and a gentle sea breeze. He is abruptly brought back to reality when his friend dies and after his hectic last week at work, flies to Florida joining his wife Jane and celebrates his retirement on a cruise ship from Port Canaveral. While waiting for Jane to return with the morning coffee the following morning, he is violently attacked on his cabin balcony and is ultimately thrown overboard. Jane returns and can't find Ed. While she searches for him aboard the ship, he spends several days and nights adrift in the Caribbean. Weak and near death, he is picked up by a boatload of immigrants heading to the U.S. A Coast Guard cutter intercepts the boat but Ed, who is completely exhausted, weak and unable to move or speak from his ordeal in the Caribbean is thought to be just another immigrant. The boat is forced to turn around which ends up in Cuba. Ed, near death and with swollen eyes and unable to see, is abandoned on the beach. He tries to walk but passes out. He is eventually picked up and cared for by a brother-sister family who nurses him back to life. During that time, he slowly regains his strength and learns about the Cuban culture, its food and way of life. They attempt to get a message to Jane, although that fails, then make risky plans to get him back to the U.S., circumventing the Cuban authorities. Intercepted by the Coast Guard, he is eventually returned to Tampa and finally rejoins his wife. Gustavo, the man who shot at and narrowly missed Ed and damaged his friend's car causing his death, was the same man who threw him overboard from the cruise ship, or was he? A Federal court is convened in Ohio, trying Gu
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