The film follows an attractive young couple, played by the gorgeous Jacqueline Bisset and rugged stoner Nick Nolte, as they holiday in Bermuda. The unlikely story that follows involves a WW2 shipwreck, a lost cache of morphine and a homicidal conger eel. The ever-dependable Robert Shaw provides excellent support as Romer Treece (similar to his Ahab turn in Jaws) as the three get involved in a race against time to save sunken treasure from a Haitian drug dealer.