The people of Kaugatoma fisherman's village start to build their own ship in order to earn a living independently from the local baron who does everything to prevent the collective action. Despite that the new ship "Kaugatoma" will hoist its white sails. However, the power of money becomes decisive for organizing the collective action and for the captain, Tõnis Tihu, and his relationship with the local community and his family. He leaves his wife Liisu with whom he has a son and marries a well-off widow. As a captain, it lies in Tõnis's power to take care of his seamen, but he prefers to put his own security first. And then the winds of the revolution of 1905 start to blow across the sea.