Seven years after the tragic death of her brother Donnie, Samantha Darko is still mourning him and the loss of the loving family that fell apart after he died.
This is the story of two young women working as hotel maids in a remote maui community have nothing else to do with their time, so they surf, and become very good at it, eventually entering a traditionally all-male surf competition.
The story tells of a group of draftees who are saved from vietnam when an irreverent soldier enters their ranks and sacrifices his own chances to go home by tricking the military into discharging them.