“Plane crashed, pilot dead.

One broken leg and a bloody head.

Summer moved out, winter moved in;

Hope of rescue seems fairly thin.”

It is October 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War. One airplane is scheduled to go to California―the other is scheduled to go down.

When the conspiracy of an alleged smuggler goes awry, five employees of the Jensen Aircraft Manufacturing Company become entangled in the ruthless plot that sabotages their airplane and leaves them stranded in the Colorado wilderness. But surviving a plane crash is the easy part, and the trials of the five friends have only just begun.

Still grieving his wife's death at Pearl Harbor, Jack was ready to give up on life, but now his only option is to find the strength within himself to help his friends pull through. Camille's hope for marriage went to war and never returned; severely injured, she believes herself unattractive and unwanted. Carl's term in a Gestapo POW camp left him scarred but strong, yet mere strength will not win Camille. Maria says she loves her husband―this is her chance to prove it. And as for Eddy, after dropping out of medical school, it takes the trauma of an airplane crash to carry him beyond fear and return him to the calling for which he was made.

Pitted against the elements, faced with debilitating injuries, confronted by the specters of their own pasts and an embezzler desperate enough to kill, do these five adventurers have what it takes to survive?