Lights: An anthropologist on his/her entourage are investigating a prison colony world Earth has lost contact with.

Camera: While checking out the crash site of a colony ship, they come across a native, who leads them to the town the prisoners and crew from the original prison ship constructed. Whatever their original crimes, the ancestors of the current inhabitants left behind a mostly law-abiding, if rough around the edges, frontier town. There is a mutual attraction between the anthropologist and one of the natives when s/he leaves for Earth, the native comes along.

Action: The native, while exceptionally skilled in hand to hand combat with his/her weapons (particularly long knives), has a penchant for getting the anthropologist into trouble with the seedier elements of the Big City, though s/he always makes the situation aright, at first. The costs of making up to offended citizens threatens to bankrupt the anthropologist, despite the native's charming personality and adorable quirks.