After his two losers, Jack (Peter Beard) and Leo (Martin Greenbaum), spend seven years courting the same woman, Vera (each has his own version of her, played by different actresses), she runs off with a third man, and her jilted suitors head for the wilderness in raucous despair to live out a survivalist fantasy that joins Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to Charlie Chaplin, W. C.