Perilous Passages

In 1939 with the threat of World War II soon to become a reality the luxury cruise liner, the Queen Mary, is dramatically transformed into a wartime troop transport ship. A British ship captain,JamesHawthorne, accepts his wartime assignment on the Queen Mary, and his strong-willed daughter, Kate, passionate about contributing to the war effort, talks her way aboard. A young Boston doctor, Ben Stuart, distraught over a nightclub fire questions his future. In Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese Ambassador sympathetic to the persecution of the Jews places himself in harm's way to help many escape. Living in Vilna, Lithuania, a Jewish engineer, Jonah Dressler, and his wife, Anna, attempt a harrowing escape from "e;the pit"e;, but that's just the beginning of their long and dangerous journey.These lives are all connected by one voyage of the legendary ship, the Queen Mary. With German U-boats hunting her, a catastrophic collision, a fierce storm and a Nazi bounty of $250,000, this marvelous British ship zig-zags a path through these lives. Will any of them be able to survive the perilous passages that they would not have chosen?