While they wanted to cross the Ocean, the ship of Marc, who was 1 year old, and his parents went through a storm. The ship was not going to resist for a long time and was near to sink. Marc's father took a rowboat by force and fled with his family. However, they were alone in the middle of the ocean, in the storm on a precarious boat.
They had survived but trapped. At least Marc's father had stolen a map and a compass to try to get his bearings, or pretend in order to not worry his wife. Marc's mother had get sick during the storm and was getting weaker and weaker. They finally found the island.

Trapped on the beach, impossible to leave the island, the ocean would  devour them and the rowboat was in too bad condition. The father built a cabin to shelter his family. The mother's state became worst, they had to to something quick.
The father finally decided to explore the island to find food and medicinal plants. But he never returned. After a few days, the mother, without hope of seeing him again, tried to get food by her own way. But impossible to move. She fell asleep and did not wake up. Some time later, a strange captain arrived on the beach and took the surviving child with him.