James Drax lands an island colony named Barbados in 1627 with 300 Pounds in pocket and a dream to turn it into 10,000. He starts by living in a cave and shooting hogs, but soon his lofty goals become grounded in reality when he sets up a money making machine in the form of a sugar plantation. The roots of capitalism are laid down by enslaved hands on lands vacated by a mountain of the dead.