Synopsis
While they're waiting at the Caracas airport for the flight that will take them back to the United States, Jane Morris and her eleven-year-old son Danny and daughter Pearl are involved in a sensational adventure. A local craftsman who used hand-made dolls to smuggle diamonds in and out of the country gives one to Pearl as a gift. But when she accidentally drops it on the floor of the airport, the diamonds scattering all over the ground right under the eyes of the police, Jane is arrested and the children are handed over to a functionary at the American Embassy. Danny runs away because he wants to go back to the airport and track down the craftsman who gave his sister the doll. Instead, he comes up against a gang of street kids who steal all his clothes, Miguel beats him up, but Danny ends up joining them. The gang has a series of adventures in which Miguel and Danny become friends, and the boys end up finding the smuggler and turning him in to the police. Danny's mother is out of jail at last.