Chicago private investigator Max Warner spends his days obsessively hunting for clues to prove that the yacht explosion that killed heiress Applewhite was set up by her greedy husband. But then one day he sees a dead ringer for her in a travel poster for South Africa.
Acting on impulse, Max flies to Africa and joins the mysterious woman on a safari trek she runs. As the pair fall for one another, he hits upon a plan to solve the Applewhite mystery...