Story summary: April 1912, two penniless lads, Jack Dawson and Robin of Locksley, win tickets to board the Titanic, on her maiden voyage. Both travel 3rd Class. Two first-class passengers, 18-year-old Ms. Regina Mills and 17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, both unhappily engaged, to respectively Mr. Caledon Hockley a Pittsburgh Steel tycoon, and Leopold Blanchard, a very rich businessman, become friends aboard the Titanic, even though they're very different. Both feel trapped in the cages their mothers and fiancés have built for them. And both want to escape their fate, but can they?