The film has four storylines, which run in parallel and interact: The story starts with two elephant poachers, the chronically mean "Big Ben" Brenner and his affable but not-very-bright assistant George, crossing the area in which Xixo's tribe lives.

Leaving the other pilot to watch his truck and equipment, he heads for the resort in the ultralight with Ann aboard, but encounter severe weather and crash, stranding them in the Kalahari Desert.

The poachers are captured, both soldiers come to somewhat reluctant terms and part without further violence, Taylor and Marshall return to civilization (though not without a last embarrassing accident), entering into a romantic relationship, and Xixo finds his children.

Movie critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said while the first film is better, he enjoyed the sequel which he called "the work of a patient craftsman, who gets his laughs out of the careful construction of elaborate physical and plot situations.

"[2] Variety reported that Uys, the director/writer "orchestrates a desert farce of criss-crossing destinies with more assured skill and charming sight-gags, marred only by facile penchant for speeded-up slapstick motion.