The crew of the SS Glencairn, composed by lonely men, need to transport explosive ammunition from the United States to London, in the beginning of World War II. Along their journey, drunkenness, fights, suspicion, deaths, and trouble caused by the German planes, fill their lives. Only Ole Olsen (John Wayne) wants to change his life, moving back home to Stockholm, Sweden.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil