A moving investigation into the human comedy. The men aboard an impounded freighter in the port of Marseilles are divided - should they wait for teh money owed them, or accept their fate and look for work on another ship? This may be Captain Abdul Aziz' last commission and he is determined to save his ship and do the right thing by the men aboard. In these close quarters, charged with physical and emotional tension, each life begins to resemble a chapter in the complex, colourful and tragic story of the Mediterranean Sea itself - rich with romance, legend, passion and drama.