A grieving mother claims her daughter died while her husband was celebrating on a ship with his mistress and his stepson. In a flashback, the father chooses to take his stepson Daniel out alone on the daughter's birthday, cruelly rejecting her pleas to join them. The young girl is left stranded on a leaky, drifting boat in a storm, using a magic conch to desperately call for her absent father, who ignores her cries while comforting his stepson. Her mother finally hears the distress calls through her own conch and mobilizes a frantic search, but the girl is still alone and in peril on the raging sea.