Perilous Passages

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In 1939 with the threat of World War II soon to become a reality the luxury cruise liner, the Queen Mary, is dramatically transformed into a wartime troop transport ship. A British ship captain accepts his wartime assignment on the Queen Mary, and his strong-willed daughter , passionate about contributing to the war effort, talks her way aboard. A young Boston doctor , distraught over a nightclub fire questions his future. In Lithuania the Japanese Ambassador, sympathetic to the persecution of the Jews, places himself in harm's way to help them. A J ewish engineer and his wife in Vilna, Lithuania attempt a harrowing escape from "the pit", just the beginning of their long and dangerous journey. These lives are all connected by one voyage of the legendary ship, the Queen Mary . With German U-boats hunting her, a catastrophic collision, a fierce storm and a Nazi bounty of $250,000, this marvelous British ship, the Queen Mary, zig-zags a path through these lives. Will any of them be able to survive the perilous passages that they would not have chosen?