Family feud with his father has convinced Sheldon to relocate on a distant island in the North Atlantic. Sheldon and his family are new comers on the small French island off the coast of Morocco. From being a carpenter, Sheldon transforms himself into a respectable rancher and entrepreneur. Though an Englishman, he manages to befriend the predominantly French inhabitants of the island.      The small island is run by an egoistic Frenchman named Jean Dominique. He keeps the residents of the island happy with the wealth acquired from a pirate chief. The Mayor brings in a French opera team for the Carnival which is celebrated every year with plenty of fanfare. Life couldn’t be sweeter for the islanders when a stranger arrives and turns everything upside down. The stranger is actually a pirate chief known to his fellow pirates as Captain Hammerhead. Before coming to the small French Island, Hammerhead secures a rich bounty from a British merchant vessel sailing from Madagascar. After a lengthy chase when Hammerhead finally raids the Indian Summer, a galleon of the Royal Navy appears over the horizon. Soon, the predator becomes the hunted, and for shelter, Hammerhead brings his brig to a cove along the coast of the small French Island. Hence, the pirate chief and his men arrive at the French Island which has been eagerly waiting to celebrate the Carnival. Everything starts to crumble around the inhabitants of the French town with the arrival of the stranger and his men. The pirate chief disguises himself as an English aristocrat who trades spices and gems acquired from China and India. After the sudden appearance of The Harbinger, the new name of Hammerhead’s vessel, one after another, disasters strike the islanders. Sheldon suspects that Hutchinson is not who he says he is. In the meantime, a quarrel breaks out between the owner of the only distillery on the island and the mayor of the French Town. The source of the quarrel is the illicit affair between the wife of the mayor and the manager of the distillery. When the manager gets caught sleeping with the mayor’s wife, the mayor presses the owner of the distillery to sack him from his job. However, the owner of the distillery refuses to give in to the mayor’s demand, and this creates two hostile groups on the island. The enigmatic English aristocrat Hutchinson befriends the mayor and throws his weight behind the controversial mayor, thus adding a new dimension to the ongoing saga of mistrust and betrayal among the islanders. Then the lead singer of the opera team disappears. Eventually her dead body is found next to Sheldon’s ranch, making Sheldon the chief suspect of this murder. Turn of events point the finger at Hutchinson and his men. Time runs out on the islanders before Hutchinson and his men can be apprehended. Disasters of epic proportion strike the island, making the islanders helpless victims of forces they cannot control. No one can tell who will survive and who will perish. The two hostile groups find themselves on the same boat, trying to save themselves from the wrath of nature.