Burned out after years of battling with the oil industry as an environmental lobbyist in Washington, Rene LeDeux returns home to southern Louisiana. All he wants to do is work on his cabin on Bayou Black. But Rene soon finds peace of mind is not so easy to come by with his great aunt, Tante Lulu, determined to get him hitched. When Rene gets mixed up in a plot hatched by two activist buddies to save the Bayou, he thinks things can't get any worse. But when they bring a kidnapped celebrity to his house - and she's none other than Valerie lce Breux, his childhood nemesis-Rene learns the true meaning of red-hot trouble!