Maggie Brown is sensible, responsible, and worried. Her irresponsible sister has run off with a revolutionary, their feckless mother swears she's dying, and Maggie has no choice but to brave the forests of San Pablo to reunite her family.

To do so, she needs Ben Frazer, a rough and tumble soldier of fortune who seems a little too interested in Maggie and has a tendency to head in the wrong direction. Throw in a counter-revolutionary named El Gallo Loco and life isn't nearly as sensible as she thought it was.

Ben's doing his best to throw her off the trail. She's annoying, straight-laced and absolutely irresistible, and the sooner she's back in the States, the better.

Unfortunately, Miss Magnolia Brown is ready to fall off her pedestal, and who better to catch her but Ben?