1972年,一支橄榄球队乘坐乌拉圭空军571号航班飞往智利。飞机在安第斯山脉中心的冰川上遭遇灾难性坠毁,45名乘客中只有16人幸存。面对世界上最险恶的环境之一,他们被迫采取极端措施来保全性命。。老农民阿方索回到了自己的家乡照顾身患重病的儿子,他重新找到了曾经居住的老房子,却发现自己的前妻带着女婿和外孙依然住在这里。等待着他的故乡已经几乎变成一片荒原,庞大的甘蔗种植园环绕着他的老房子,日夜烟雾缭绕。阿方索17年前抛下家人离开,如今他试图重新返回,挽救亲情,却发现在这个已经物是人非的地方,很多答案只能自己去寻找。。Miss Mary Morstan contacts Sherlock Holmes for his help regarding her father, captain Morstan, who disappeared 10 years ago. Since his disappearance she annually receives a valuable pearl by post from an unknown person. The mystery leads Holmes and doctor Watson into an intricate plot regarding a lost treasure belonging to four convicts on the Andaman Islands。