A 22 year old Artist named Jack Dawson wins tickets in a luckey hand of poker to board the maiden voyage of the "Unsinkable" rms Titanic. Jack and his italian friend fabrizio are going back to chippawa falls wisconsin to hopefully start a new life. Jack meets a 17 year old girl named Rose De Witt Bukater who is engadged to a man named Caledon Nathan Hockley. Jack and rose soon connect and there passionate love affair soon becomes a race for survial after the cruise liner collides with an ice burg.