Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew cross the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. They and the Germans are greatly in need of water.
A group of men on safari offend a local tribe. All save one are killed, but he is given the chance to run. Naked and weaponless he is set loose, the hunters hot on his heels, beginning a life-or-death hunt through wild Africa.