On the very day Jaime's middle school class discusses a sticky situation developing in Central America, Oscar arrives hat in hand to ask her to fix it! The American ambassador to the republic of "Costa Brava" and his wife are trapped in the rubble of a bombed out building in a remote jungle patrolled by bloodthirsty rebels, and only Jaime can save the day, because the man she's sent in with is too afraid of getting shot to give any thought to finding the ambassador.