Jetta FitzGerald is an American school teacher who comes to the jungles of Peru searching for her missing missionary brother. She hires her brother's friend, Conrado Nievez as her guide.Conrado has been raised from childhood by a jungle tribe after the death of his parents. The tribe thinks he is the boy of their prophecy, and calls him El Condor.Conrado can't bring himself to tell Jetta her brother is dead by a poisonous dart from his own blowgun, even tho he can't remember what happened. The jungle is a dangerous place and something . . . or someone is always hiding behind a tree waiting to strike out and kill.