The Soviet Union has recently fallen. Europe is a geopolitical ground zero. On September 27th 1994 the passenger ship MS Estonia sets sail from Tallinn bound for Stockholm. She never arrives at her destination. Of the 989 people on board, 852 die in the freezing cold Baltic Sea. The largest maritime disaster since the Titanic. Some claim it was a military operation gone wrong. This is the story about the survivors and those who didn't make it about those who died and those who survived to tell the story.