A couple retires to a tropical paradise in Panama. What appears to be a serendipitous circumstance leads them to an association with a powerful Chinese lady, whose foundation plans to create a center for better understanding between nations, religions and the sexes. Through a series of different situations, ranging from frivolity to extreme luxury and then abject terror, their lives take on a new purpose as they commit to saving Mother Earth from the ravages of man's greed for power and material wealth.