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Directed by Randal Kleiser, the film follows two young cousins, Emmeline and Richard, who are shipwrecked on a remote South Pacific island during the late Victorian period.
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The narrative is deliberately reductive, stripping away the complexities of society to examine the raw mechanics of human development. Two cousins, Richard and Emmeline, and a ship’s cook are shipwrecked on a lush tropical island. Following the death of the cook, the children grow up alone, effectively cut off from the moral, social, and religious structures of the Edwardian society they left behind. The central conflict of the film is not man against nature, but rather the children’s navigation of their own biological imperatives without the context of culture.