Two young people from opposite sides of the social and racial divide meet in a stalled, blacked out lift. Their budding romance is viewed with disapproval by both families: she is white blue-collar, he is black upwardly-mobile.
A group of gangsters hold a beautiful woman and her handicapped mother-in-law prisoners in their own hotel. From out of nowhere, a hurricane traps everyone and the only way to survive is to outsmart or out kill the other.