As a premise for comedy, travel is above all a humorous confrontation with otherness: the other, the foreigner, the exotic.
Everyone’s habits are put to the test when displaced into an unfamiliar, unknown, and potentially unsettling environment. This confrontation primarily serves to highlight the absurdities of our own quirks and prejudices.
From this encounter with otherness often arises conflict among the travelers themselves, who, with limited resources, must face extraordinary situations and unexpected problems together, each burdened by their own flaws.
Peter and Mary were strangers until their cruise ship, the Costa Mucho, was shipwrecked. After washing up on a deserted island, they realise that, as the lone survivors, they must overcome their differences in order to survive. Life is a shipwreck ... and the afterlife is an offshore tax haven.
Two tourists arrive at the villa they rented for their holidays in a Maghreb country, which was on special offer after its recent revolution. However, they find the house already occupied by another couple...