On the beach lies a large luxury yacht; the yacht belongs to Anna, a young, beautiful, wealthy woman who travels the seas in search of her lost love, the sailor from Gibraltar. The ship had once taken him on board when he, at twenty years old, was on the run for murder, having fled from the Foreign Legion. He had left the ship in Shanghai. Because Anna loves him like no other companion she takes on board for amusement from one port to another, she searches for him and does not give up hope of finding him. And the narrator of this story accompanies her. He wants to help her find the sailor. What could the sailor from Gibraltar be—other than the love interest of a wealthy woman? He could represent youth, crime, hope. He may have become a symbol, a symbol of the search for an absolute, enduring love.