Angie Benedetto is a smart-mouthed Brooklyn girl who's neighborhood customs chafe her as much as her plaid-flannel Catholic school uniform. Angie dreams of flying airplanes, traveling to exotic places and finding a guy who doesn't think high-roll collars and a duck's ass hairstyle mark the height of sophistication. After Angie's mother allows her to fly for her 'Uncle Anthony' as a missionary pilot, Angie reports the murder of Asmat natives. She becomes a tool for her 'Uncle's' plans to gain control of a gold mine and the quarry of mercenaries who protect the new owner's possession of the same mine. Charles Abbott Aldridge is a proper New Englander who wants to study primitive tribes, help his father, and be left alone to live his life. Charles, lost and presumed dead for half-a-dozen years, is the only man who can help Angie. Smart-mouthed Angie needs proper New Englander Charles to escape from those people looking to kill her and Charles needs Angie to help his father. Angie's Uncle Anthony must deal with Angie's mother alone.