Cowed by his nagging wife Katrina after his still explodes, Alfred, a rural boat builder leave home and go to a desert island to stay for a little while until she has a change of heart. But without his boat and clothes, locals soon report of a wild man dressed in a grass skirt, howling incomprehensibly. Also, customs officers is searching for 29 stolen barrels of liquor with Alfred's brother-in-law Mandus a suspect.