On his voyage from Brazil to procure slaves in Africa the Englishman Robinson Crusoe shipwrecks and is left stranded on a remote island. He makes do with the little he has, slowly building himself a home, domesticating animals, growing crops and finding God. When a tribe of cannibals comes to his island for their ghastly feast, he saves one of their captives, calls him Friday and makes him his servant. Having helped to end a mutiny on an English ship he returns to his home country after 28 years on the island.