The rock of the Grotto of Lourdes is caressed by tens of millions of people who left there the imprint of their dreams, their expectations, their hopes and their sentences. In Lourdes converge all the fragilities.

The life of the Portuguese coastal fishing communities in the 1930's. Terra Nova sails for a campaign on the banks of Newfoundland, weather storms, crew revolt, and the best and worst of humanity are tested in extreme circumstances.