Twelve-year-old Mary and her young sister are shipwrecked on a tropical island with four babies in their charge. There they manage to win the friendship of the island's only other inhabitant--a confirmed child-hating Englishman.
Twelve-year-old Mary Wallace and her ten-year-old sister Jean survive the wreck of an ocean liner on its way to Australia and manage to make it to a seemingly deserted island in a lifeboat with four babies.
