Christopher Columbus, ten years after his celebrated 1492 crossing, sits in a Caribbean prison facing criminal charges brought by the Spanish crown he served. This film follows his response: a plan to escape custody and mount one more transatlantic voyage that might undo the damage to his name. He sets out with four ships, all that remain of his once-substantial fleet, on a route meant to prove he could still deliver what the crown wanted from the New World. The voyage does not go as planned. Storms, hostile coastlines, and the ordinary hazards of Age of Discovery sailing wreck the expedition, and Columbus and his crew end up stranded, their ships lost. The film treats this as the closing chapter of his career rather than a footnote, using the prison charges and the doomed fourth voyage to complicate the standard image of Columbus as a triumphant navigator. What emerges instead is a man gambling everything on one last crossing, and losing.