A famous female artist, Sara Ehrenreich, resurfaces after being lost to the world for thirty years. She has been living on a tiny island in the South Pacific for all this time, after running away to paradise with fellow artist Philip Ehrenreich. During there marriage Sara becomes more famous as an artist. Philip is killed during WWII, but Sara survives and becomes an expert on native tattooing and uses her own body as the canvas for her art. She now returns to civilization to much acclaim from the art world.