Handsome, world-renowned archaeologist Lord Yelverton arrives in Mexico searching for ancient treasure – more artefacts like the carved jaguar bone he possesses. However, in order to explore the sacred cave where more treasures may be found he needs the endorsement of a man called Ajax Audenshaw in Acapulco.Arriving, he finds Audenshaw is a promiscuous painter, surrounded by children born of different women. Among them, Tula, a young golden-haired, blue-eyed and mysterious beauty who reluctantly agrees to show him the way to the cave. On the way, though, he falls into a waterfall and almost drowns. Administering the ‘kiss of life’ Tula revives him. But it is not until much later that he realises that with that breath she also infused his heart with love.