During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' . Written by Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>
In 1865, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the union soldiers POW Captain Harding, Neb and Herbert escape in a balloon during a storm with two confederate prisoners, Sergeant Pencroft and the journalist Spilett. The uncontrollable wind takes the balloon to a mysterious island in the South Pacific in the area of New Zealand. Captain Harding self-proclaims the leader of the group and they look for food; sooner they discover that they are stranded in an island. Further, they are attacked by a giant crab that becomes their first meal. Along the days, they build a shelter and finds that the island is inhabited by giant animals. A couple of days later, they find two castaways on the beach, the aristocratic Lady Mary Fairchild and her sexy niece Elena. Later they find a trunk with weapons and instruments like sextant and shelter with a journal of a man left alone in the island by pirates. When the pirate vessel arrives in the island, they are helped by Captain Nemo of the Nautilus, a submarine that had supposedly sunk in the coast of Mexico eight years ago. Nemo is famous as the man that tried to end strike among man. When the volcano begins activity, they need to leave the island to save their lives. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
母亲死后,凯特(海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰)被姨妈玛德(夏洛特·兰普林 Charlotte Rampling 饰)收留了。玛德希望凯特能够嫁给一个富翁,从此过上衣食无忧的生活,可桀骜不驯的凯特偏偏爱上了名不见经传的小记者莫顿(莱纳斯·罗彻 Linus Roache 饰)。
一个名叫米莉(艾丽森·艾略特 Alison Elliott 饰)的富家女出现在了凯特的身边,她身患重病,命不久矣。单纯的米莉爱上了莫顿,凯特将这一切都看在眼里,一条既能得到米莉家产又能收获莫顿爱情的妙计应运而生,她很快就和米莉成为了无话不谈的好友。然而,人心并不如凯特想象中的那般容易操纵,眼看着莫顿和米莉之间的感情越来越深就要失去控制,凯特陷入了深深的不安之中。