在一所贵族学校里，少年们个个都是精英富豪的后代，然而他们却是一群不知天高地厚的叛逆少年。他们的父母将他们送到了一个遥远的孤岛夏令营，在那里少年们会学会基本的生存技巧，从而磨练人生。然而一帮劫匪却以少年们为人质，向他们的父母敲诈百万巨款。面对死亡的威胁，少年们忽然意识到，这才是真正考验他们勇气的时刻。

Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, an honest local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.

女星瑞德曾經紅極一時，隨著年齡增長，她的演藝事業開始走下坡，經紀人昆頓也把全部心力集中在照顧更年輕、更當紅的潘妮洛普身上。瑞德決定走險招賭一把，她把電視主持人及攝影師找來，答應給他們一則獨家新聞，當採訪開始時，瑞德拋出一枚震撼彈，她將一把沾滿鮮血的兇刀放在桌上，不僅承認刀子上的血跡正是女星潘妮洛普所有，更表明警方已經在趕來的路上。這一切究竟是怎麼一回事？是瑞德出於忌妒殺了潘妮洛普，還是兇手另有其人？