Bill Maitland, nicknamed Savage Bill, a brave man and a first-class pilot, flew into the thick of it and returned as if nothing had happened. But one day his plane crashed in the jungles of Vietnam. Savage Bill has gone missing. Twenty years later, his daughter, Willie Maitland, went in search of her father. Military officials, confident that Maitland was dead, could not convince her of the pointlessness of the idea. Neither threats nor attempts on her life stopped the girl. US Army official Guy Barnard is also searching for the missing pilot. A brave, intelligent and charming man who knows Vietnam very well, Barnard offers Willie help and support. In a desperate race with death in a foreign country, they do not immediately understand that they are connected by something more than the common goal of the journey...