 Melanie is out with the girls in a country town on New Zealand s wild but beautiful West Coast when she meets the perfect stranger. The inevitable question  your place or mine?  arises and Melanie chooses his, not knowing it is a fishing boat. In the morning they are at sea destined for the stranger s home on a remote and inaccessible island. Despite the man s charm, Melanie comes to the realisation she has been kidnapped but, gradually, is captivated by strangely symbiotic nature of their relationship