Based on Dean King’s bestselling book [optioned for the big screen by Steven Spielberg] this film is the epic survival tale of Captain James Riley and his crew, shipwrecked in 1815 off the coast of modern day Morocco in the Sahara Desert, “where skin boils, eyeballs burn, lips blacken, and men shrivel to less than 90 pounds.”  Captured into slavery, they would encounter barbarism, murder, starvation, and hostile tribes roaming the desert on armies of camels—and forge an unlikely bond of salvation with a Muslim slave trader—on their journey to freedom.