MS Estonia's emergency positioning buoy can be found on the coast of Estonia. Estonian researchers would like to study the buoy themselves, but they have to hand over the buoy to Finland. The research commission's internal pressures escalate and it is no longer possible to continue the research work as it is.

The research commission is looking for a new chairman when the whole commission is about to dissolve. On the MS Estonia, the argument of the Swedish brothers returning from Tallinn about their future together is interrupted when water starts flowing from under the door into the cabin.