CAUTION: The re-creation of the 1972 Andes plane crash and THE SURVIVAL SCENES may be too intense for young teenagers! This incredible film is based on a true story. On October 13, 1972, the flight of Fairchild 571 carrying forty-five passengers crashed in the Andes Mountains of Argentina. This horrible accident took the lives of most of the passengers, including many members of a professional rugby team. Sixteen people managed to live, but what they did to stay alive is the most shocking episode in the history of human survival!
Alex and Erica Boyer’s marriage is in a crisis: job and wife bore Alex. When Erica has an accident that has her staying in a wheel chair for some time, it changes their life: Alex meets Erica’s young therapy assistant Lisa and gets the idea that she’d be the end of his boredom and he could start over with her. However Lisa’s boyfriend feels what’s going on and isn’t idle.