Henry St James, le capitaine du ferry-boat méditerranéen, a des choses bien organisées: Maud, une femme aimante et très anglaise à Gibraltar, et Nita à Tanger, la Maîtresse amoureuse et plutôt plus chaude. Une vie parfaite. Tant qu'aucune femme ne décide de le suivre dans l'autre port..
Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-Eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major Towalaka, to accompany him on his "walk into hell" and then finds that a French lady doctor, Louise Dumurcet, is to go with them part of the journey. They find the malaria-stricken Jeff Clayton in a deserted village and he joins the trek. They are captured by jungle-natives but are released after Dr. Dumurcet cures the fever-stricken children of the chief..
