Jacky Farber is a pirate, mischievous girl and officer. She has recently escaped the British authorities after fighting in the Battle of Trafalgar and is wanted for piracy. Jacky has returned to Boston, Massachusetts to wait for her fiance, Lieutenant James Fletcher to come for her. However, to avoid being caught by the British, she must return to Lawson Peabody School for Girls, a place she has lived in the past.