The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Frank struggles to keep it together while an awkward gang of angels serve only to make things worse.

In the early 1990s, a European immigrant with a young family struggles to chase the American Dream, while avoiding the life he left behind.