Maria Bennett, her husband Henry and their three sons Lucas, Tomas and
Simon are on holiday over Christmas at a tropical paradise resort in Thailand. However, the
devastating 2004 tsunami, which occurred on 26 December 2004,
destroys the coastal zone, and they are swept up in the flood - a flood which
captures Maria searching for a lost page of a book against a glass window while
the rest of the family is near the pool.
Maria and Lucas are separated from the others and Maria's leg is badly
injured. At Maria's insistence, they rescue a small boy called Daniel who has
also been separated from his family. The three climb a tree in case a new wave
approaches. They are found by locals and taken to a hospital - Maria on a door
used as a stretcher. Maria, who is a doctor, is concerned about her leg, and
asks Lucas to tell her if it turns black. She encourages Lucas to see if he can
provide any help to the others. Lucas takes names from patients and searches
for their relatives. When he returns to Maria's bed she is not there, and due
to a mix-up, the hospital staff believes she has died and takes Lucas to a tent
where other children without families are being held; a phone call can be made,
but Lucas does not remember the number of his grandpa. In fact, Maria has
surgery on her torn chest and is later reunited with Lucas.
Elsewhere Henry, Thomas, and Simon are together and safe. Henry asks
Thomas to look after his little brother then places the children into a vehicle
full of tourists who are being taken to a safe place in the mountains, while he
keeps searching for Maria and Lucas. Later, Henry arrives in the mountains and
finds Thomas and Simon have been sent elsewhere. Communication facilities are
scarce, but another man, German tourist Karl, allows Henry to make a phone call
to his father-in-law Brian in the UK. Henry uses the phone only to break down
in the midst of the call. Maria and Lucas have not contacted the family, so
Henry doesn't know they have survived. Karl then volunteers to accompany Henry
to look for his wife and son.
Henry and Karl search for their missing families in various shelters and
hospitals before they arrive at the hospital where Maria and Lucas are.
Unbeknownst to all, the entire family is miraculously in the same place. Henry
walks past Maria's ward, and she appears to recognize his shadow against the
curtain of her ward, but is too weak to call out. Lucas spots his father
(recognizing his shorts and bloody legs) in the distance, but immediately loses
sight of him, and takes chase. Simon recognizes Lucas's voice when he shouts
for his father. Thomas and Simon leap off a truck transporting lost children
just in time to reunite with Lucas, and at the same moment Henry stumbles
across all three of his sons and Lucas tells him their mother is in the
hospital.
They find Maria, who appears to be on the verge of death and needs
immediate surgery. She survives the surgery, and the following day a
representative of their insurance company arrives to fly them to a hospital in
Singapore in a small plane. Lucas tells Maria that the boy they rescued,
Daniel, has been reunited with his father. As they take off, Maria is shown
viewing the devastation of the tsunami from the plane window, and she begins to
weep.
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Maria Bennett, an English woman and the mother of the Bennett family.
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Henry Bennett, a Scottish man and the father of the Bennett family.
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Lucas Bennett, the 13-year-old son of Maria and Henry.
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Tomas Bennett, the seven-and-a-half-year-old son of Maria and Henry.
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Simon Bennett, is, at the age of five, the youngest child of Maria and Henry.
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Karl Schweber, a German man trying
to find his wife Kathy and daughter Gina who joins Henry to find their
families.
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An elderly woman, a 74-year-old woman who talks to Tomas about the stars after the tsunami.
QUESTIONS:
1.
Who were Lucas, Tomas and Simon?
2.
At the time of the tsunami, where was
the Bennett Family?
3.
When was the tsunami?
4.
What was Maria doing?
5.
Where was the rest of the family?
6.
What happened to Maria and Lucas?
7.
What happened to Maria’s leg?
8.
Who was rescued by Maria and Lucas?
9.
Why did they climb a tree?
10. Who
found Maria, Lucas and Daniel?
11. What
is Maria’s profession?
12. Why
Maria was worried about her leg?
13. What
did Lucas do to help people?
14. When he returns to Maria's bed she was not
there, what did he think about?
15. Elsewhere, what happened with Henry, Tomas
and Simon?
16. What
did Henry ask his son Tomas?
17. Did
Henry know his son and wife were alive?
18. Where
did Karl and Henry look for their families?
19. How
did Lucas recognize his father?
20. When
did Simon recognize Lucas´s voice?
21. What
did Simon and Tomas do to reunite with Lucas?
22. How
was Maria when they found her?
23. What
did Maria do when she saw the devastation of the tsunami?
