 Jimmy War Eagle is a basketball superstar flying disaster relief money to flood victims in Central America when his plane crashes in a storm. he buries the cash, and is eventually rescued by people from a mysterious village on an island called Paradise Island, which seems to float in the middle of a lake (in actuality, a real town pictured now and then in publications like National Geographic). He is befriended by a Priest and falls in love with the beautiful Maria, but local layabouts Mano and Koki hear about the treasure. They steal the sheriff s gun, kidnap Maria and try to steal it.