An airliner on flight No. 815 will never reach its destination. On the way from Sydney to Los Angeles, it will crash. Forty-eight people who survive the disaster will find themselves on a remote, mysterious uninhabited island…
Jeff Hadley, a lecturer at a prestigious college and a successful fashion artist, doesn’t know where to put his admirers. In high spirits, he boards a plane heading from Australia—where he held a personal exhibition—to the United States. He is returning home, full of grand plans, but none of them is destined to come true…