Fourteen year-old Fancy has spent months on the trail of the people who kidnapped her four year-old sister Danni. When she finds the man, he's been killed by his female accomplice, whom Fancy finally finds, only to see her dive to her apparent death when she hits the riverboat paddle. Losing hope, she goes to join her friend Phyllis Compton in Louisville, where she has opened a saloon with Fancy as an absent partner.