Artist Armand Hauterive sketches Romany girl Nadette Darson. When she returns to her caravan, they start to beat her, until Hauterive pays them money to be his model. She comes with him to his studio, where she discovers he is madly in love with another woman who rejects him.
Full length survey of highpoints in the explorer's life. Shows influencers he sought who supported his project and opposition and even indignities he suffered from enemies and those prejudiced against the idea of a New World.
