Toto is a professor of classical dance and falls in love with Laura, daughter of the famous anthropologist Berti, who died while he was searching of the man-ape, in fact the missing link between man and ape. Toto, however, is too shy and can not find the courage to speak to his beloved. When Laura starts with an expedition organized by Prof. Smith to win the prize of five million pounds which will go to those who demonstrate the existence of the man-ape, Toto embarks as a stowaway on a ship where he became sous chef and later discovered, is thrown into the sea. But ..