Tami Oldham wakes up on a boat that is flooding into the ocean. She immediately sets out to
find her fiancé, Richard but realizes he is no longer there and bursts into a cry.
Five months ago, Tami had just landed in a French island port,
ready to immigrate to the country. Once she arrives, she answers the guard's
routine questions in a very general way, not knowing precisely what she wants to do either.
At work, she gets acquainted with a woman named Deb as they clean a boat.
Shortly after that, she is joined by Richard in his boat, and as they introduce themselves, the
two give him a hand in hooking up the boat. The following day, Tami sees Richard working
on his own boat and catches up with him, bringing him ice.
He invites her to have dinner together, and she accepts, as long as it is a vegetarian dinner.
Later that night, Richard tells her that he travels alone and how this kind of solitude
brings many disadvantages with it. As they chat, Richard deduces that she is
also a sailor. Tami denies this. Nevertheless, he plans to have her drive the boat the next day.
Despite her inexperience, she proves she is talented at sailing,
and they have a good time together. They continue their adventures together,
and Tami takes him to a waterfall. She dives into the water but Richard,
not seeing her anymore, jumps in to rescue her to see if she is all right.
He finds her and discovers that it is a simple prank.
They find themselves on the beach, sitting on the seashore, where a kiss sparks between the two.
Back to the present, Tami tries to communicate the mayday through the radio but to no avail.
After moments of despair, she reflects on the fact that the boat is missing a lifeboat
and immediately sets out to reach it. The boat does not start because the sails
have fallen into the water. She proceeds to detach them
but falls into the water. After nearly choking on the latter,
she climbs back up and reaches the boat drifting away.
She covers the holes with tape and finds several tools, including the boat's jib and a pump.
Through the pump, she manages to get some water out and then, with some difficulty,
unfurl the sails. Soon after, through the binoculars,
she finally sees the lifeboat. She removes the sails, attaches
herself to the boat with a rope, and reaches Richard, who is fortunately still alive.
She takes him back on board and reassures him that everything will be alright.
Let's go back to the past, before the accident.
Richard shows her a flower: it is the flower of love, and according to tradition,
wearing it on the left ear means being romantically committed.
Over dinner, she tells him about her adolescence and how her mother's absence
influenced her experiences, leading her to travel the world as an adult.
Following this, Tami convinces him to dance with her.
During the couple's dance, the man asks her if she would like to travel the world in his company,
and, of course, she accepts. While shopping for groceries,
they plan their next trip, but they encounter a couple on their way out of the supermarket.
They are some of Richard's friends, and they came up with an exciting offer.
Once they are seated at a bar, they offer to take their boat back to California in exchange for
$10,000 and a first-class plane ticket back. A hard offer to refuse,
but Richard says he will only accept in exchange for two tickets so he can take Tami with him.
Soon after, he catches up with Tami, who, a little nervous, says she doesn't want to
just follow him on his adventures. Moreover, she does not want to return
to the very place from which she has been estranged in recent years.
Richard, realizing that he may be being selfish, decides to decline the offer.
After sailing so far to find her, he doesn't want to lose her just now.
We return on the day of the accident. Richard is not in good shape at all,
and Tami covers his injuries. Tami does some calculations and realizes that
they have drifted too far away, heading north. Once she realizes the distance, she becomes
demoralized, thinking they will die, and Richard tries to reassure her.
However, the man has a hunch: they do not have to go back to touch the land.
Looking at the map, they conclude that they must reach Hawaii if they want to save themselves.
The real problem, however, is that it will be very risky since if they miss the target, the nearest
destination would then be too far away. Nevertheless, they decide to try.
Back during the good days, the couple finds themselves on a couple's luxury boat,
and after a chat with the latter, they discuss their future.
Fortunately, Tami decided to go with him anyway. Richard explained to her that they
would have the funds to travel for a whole year with the financial compensation.
Tami writes a letter to her mother, announcing her imminent return. As they travel,
a particular red sunset arrives, and they joke about the exact name of its color...this
detail will prove crucial later on, but they don't know it yet.
Returning to the ongoing tragedy, they can rely on some food and water found on the boat, but it will
not be enough for the duration of the journey. Five days into the drift, they realize they have
gone a bit off course, and Tami decides to fix the rudder as the cause of the problem.
She puts on a diving mask, dives into the water, and notices that a piece of the sail is stuck.
After a few attempts, using strength with her hands and legs,
she finally manages to remove it. Five days later, he finds a face cream,
and after putting it on both of them, he checks Richard's wounds.
There is not much food left. They have to fish for something so as not to risk starvation.
Tami, for her part, refuses to eat it, as she is a vegetarian, which would go against her ideals.
Richard makes her understand that this is not the right time for such tantrums;
she must do it anyway for their survival. She takes courage and plunges into the water,
but the first attempt fails, and she comes back up.
She tries again, but the result is the same,
and she climbs back into the boat, crying. Soon after, Tami meditates, sitting on the boat,
it starts to rain, and she is on cloud nine, delirious with joy.
Eighteen days into the drift, looking for objects around the boat, she finds wine,
and they get back, if only for a moment, in touch with humanity by celebrating and drinking.
A few days pass, and as Tami plays the guitar and sings, Richard tells her that
he wishes he had never met her. That way, he would not have put her in this situation.
On the other hand, Tami does not regret it; in fact, she will carry these memories forward.
In the evening, Richard dabbles with the same instrument, and Tami asks him if he wants to
talk to her about his mother's early death. He agrees and tells how he has internalized this
trauma, imagining how his mother would judge him by seeing him in certain situations.
The fiancée then asks what his mother thinks of all that is happening.
In response, he proposes marriage to her. She willingly accepts and puts on a handmade ring
created in those days. Richard promises to buy a
real one once they arrive in the states. Twenty-nine days into the drift, during the night,
Tami has a hallucination where a vast ship passes right next to them without stopping.
She realizes she is delusional, and they are both demoralized. For Richard, the only positive note
is that despite dehydration, distance, and all, they are not dead yet.
A few days later, while helping him to drink, Tami reports that there are about 690 miles to go.
Let's go back to the day it all started. At some point, they are told on the radio
that 1,000 miles away from them is the center of a storm.
As a precaution, they decide to change plans and modify the course to avoid the storm.
A few hours later, they find themselves in the middle of it
and do everything they can to save themselves. In the present, Tami notices a sky identical to
the one at the beginning of the journey and senses that something is coming.
Fortunately for them, it was only a blizzard. Tami tells him how, as a child, when her relatives
were fighting, she would lock herself inside the tub, imagining that she was somewhere else...so
she proposes to do the same thing now. As they were tossed around by the ocean,
Tami picked up the emergency locator transmitter so they could report their location.
They continue to do everything they can not to die, and Richard tells her
to go down as they might tip over. She does not want to leave him alone
but goes down anyway. Once she gets there, she is thrown to the other side
of the bottom floor because of the waves. Richard, on the other hand, falls to the bottom
of the ocean after losing consciousness. After the flashback is over, Tami wakes up,
realizing the stark truth of the facts. Richard, after the accident, was never with her;
they were just hallucinations, typical of those traveling alone.
She actually experienced all the tragedy without Richard, but this illusion gave her strength.
She goes down into the water to hunt for fish. This time she succeeds at the first
strike and comes back up. She eats it despite being against her ideals.
Suddenly, a little bird catches up with her, and she cannot explain what it is doing there.
She uses binoculars, and the miracle seems to happen: she sees dry land in the distance.
She wastes no time and uses a pyrotechnic gun, attracting a ship
that immediately rescues her. Sometime later, she returns to visit the boat,
and looking at pictures brings back all the good memories she had together with Richard.
She bursts into tears and looks around. She even finds the flower he had given her.
She reaches the beach where they first kiss and, once she reaches the seashore,
leaves the flower in the water in memory of her deceased boyfriend.
After that day, Tami never stopped sailing.
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