Against the Odds

On December seventh, two thousand seven, brothers Alcides and Edgar Moreno arrived for work at a forty seven story apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side. They were experienced window washers. Within minutes of reaching the roof, the suspended platform beneath them failed. Both brothers fell hundreds of feet. Edgar died. Alcides arrived at the hospital with fractures throughout his body...

On August sixth, nineteen forty five, twenty nine year old engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was finishing a business trip in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb used in war exploded over the city. Burned and injured, he survived the night and made the difficult journey home. Home was Nagasaki. Three days later, while Yamaguchi was describing what had happened in Hiroshima, the second atomic bomb explod...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

What keeps a person going when the chances of making it home begin to disappear? Against the Odds explores extraordinary struggles for survival through the deeply human moments inside them: the fear someone hides, the stranger they choose to trust, the mistake they cannot undo, and the promise that gives them a reason to take one more step. Each episode follows difficult decisions under pressure,...

After Bahia Bakari was pulled from the Indian Ocean, the immediate survival crisis ended. A different ordeal began. She was hospitalized with a fractured collarbone, burns, bruising, and exhaustion, while authorities confirmed that the other one hundred fifty two people aboard Yemenia Flight Six Two Six had died. The official accident record lists one serious injury and one hundred fifty two fatal...

In June two thousand nine, twelve year old Bahia Bakari was traveling with her mother from France to the Comoros when Yemenia Flight Six Two Six crashed into the Indian Ocean during a nighttime approach to Moroni. Bahia survived the impact and found herself alone in dark, rough water with an injured shoulder and almost no swimming ability. She grabbed a piece of floating wreckage and held on throu...

In March nineteen forty three, Norwegian commando Jan Baalsrud returned to German occupied Norway as part of Operation Martin, a sabotage and resistance mission involving twelve men aboard the fishing vessel Brattholm. The operation was compromised almost immediately. German forces attacked the vessel, and eleven members of the mission were killed, captured, or later executed. Baalsrud was the onl...