Sparks fly when Nellie (Mitzi Gaynor), a naive Navy nurse stationed in the South Seas, meets worldly French plantation owner Emile (Rossano Brazzi), in this Oscar-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical set in a tropical paradise. Meanwhile, in a then-daring depiction of interracial relationships, a young American officer falls for a beautiful island native. The two couples from worlds apart grapple with love at a time of war.