Captain Paulsen heads for the mysterious Island of birds of paradise: New Guinea. The shipping company assigned trainee board doctor Hanna Lauterberg, who proves cocky, ambitious and ill-considered, yet steps up when they get kidnapped by a pirate desperate to have his son treated for an alas fatal gun wound. The Müller couple heads in the barely explored jungle, where inventor Dirk Müller drags his wife Erika, seeking a miracle plant cure for hair loss, like his own, which seems nonexistent with Papua natives, unsafe despite a local guide. Beauty clinic chief Dieter Holzmann boarded "MS Deutschland" with much younger beloved Tatjana Blume, but finds among the passengers his youth ex Ines Krüger, who is still attracted but passes her adult son Jojo as her lover, causing plenty of misunderstandings.
—KGF Vissers