Fifteen boys aged eight to fourteen from the “Cherman” boarding school in New Zealand decide to spend their vacation on a sea journey. At night, the children are left alone on a drifting ship and get caught in a storm. The boys are swept out to open sea, and on March 10, 1860, they land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Their extraordinary vacation lasts until February 25, 1862, when the crew finally returns them home…