The cruiser heads for the South Sea archipelago Samoa from Sydney, Australia. Captain Paulsen learns in confidence that agent Gerd Finke is after master thief Volker Pohl, whose lover-accomplice is aboard, and meets him on an island trip, but gets jealous of his local bar maid, who turns nasty, yet Cupid strikes again. Udo Haas travels with his single-raised teen daughter, who has a hard d-time dealing with a potential stepmother. Doc Horst Schröder and chief hostess Beatrice chaperon culinary ravel guide authors Lydia Collani viz. Guido Weber, irreconcilable rivals finding themselves aboard after the same native cuisine, yet reaching more of an understanding than keeping quiet neither is an actual chef.
—KGF Vissers