The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is
on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with
the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a
mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western
Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night. While Commandeur Francisco
Pelsaert decides to take the long-boat across 2000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in-
command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over, quickly deciding that 250 people on a small
island is unwieldy for the small number of supplies they have. Quietly, he puts forward a
plan to 40 odd mutineers how they could save themselves, kill most of the rest and spare
only a half-dozen or so women, including his personal fancy, Lucretia Jansz - one of the
noted beauties of Holland - to service their sexual needs. A reign of terror begins, countered
only by a previously anonymous soldier Wiebbe Hayes, who begins to gather to him those
are prepared to do what it takes to survive...

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