Thor Heyerdahl his accomplishment to sail across the Pacific on a balsaflåte becomes even more impressive when you consider that he struggled with water all the way from horror childhood. And this is where this movie starts. Buddy Erik Thor rescues from death by drowning, but it does not affect the adventurous to the boy
As a young man marries Thor with his girlfriend's Liv, and together they travel on love travel to Pacific island of Fatu Hiva. Here planting the root of his theory that the first inhabitants of Polynesia came sailing with the southern Equatorial stream from Peru. The couple will get two guys together, but Thor is a real Mule, and he is almost obsessed with the idea of to prove his theory. He travels to New York looking for financial support, but pretty much all the scientific world dismisses the idea. But he manages to eventually to scrape together funds and equipment, among other things, with the help of the President of Peru and the u.s. Navy. At the same time he meets the engineer and kjøleskaps sell pure, which is being with Herman on the journey together with Erik and three other adventurers-two men from the resistance war and a Swedish friskus.
The Mission of the sea are far from undramatic, and meeting with the sharks, violent storms and other natural phenomena are holding on to crack the good morale of the crew, and it is inevitable that there is going to be friction between the different personalities.