The teenage daughter (Pamela Franklin) of a rich businessman is abducted by professional kidnappers (led by Marlon Brando and Richard Boone) right after she deplanes at Orly Airport outside Paris. The kidnappers' plan is to extort a king's ransom from the girl's wealthy father. But their faultless plot begins to unravel as soon as they dump the victim in a beach hideaway owned by a drug-addicted stewardess.