The owner of a 19th-century salvage company falls in love with a captain she rescues from a shipwreck, and helps him prove in court that the vessel's sinking was not his fault. However, the lawyer hired to plead the case also falls for the salvager, and the rivalry drives the captain into an alliance with a ruthless pirate. Romantic adventure, starring John Wayne and Paulette Goddard.

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.