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Offers a simplified version of the story of five Union prisoners of war who escape from a Confederate prison camp in a hot-air balloon, only to crash land on an unknown island where they must learn to survive on their own.

Australia is one of the last places where life still exists after nuclear war starts. Commander Dwight Towers and his Australian liason officer is sent to the coast of North America to discover whether a stray radio signal is a sign of life.