Boston socialite Violet Callahan, daredevil pilot and 1920s flapper longs for independence and continuously lives on the edge of danger by flying in a flying circus and performing dangerous aviation stunts. When she meets Prohibition agent Jack Moran he is horrified at the risks that Violet continuously takes, but her determination for her flying career comes above all things even him. Jack follows Violet's barnstorming career over a period of two years and when they meet up again in a speakeasy in Hilton Head events unfold that bring Jack and Violet together that include a federal trial and the death of a mob witness that cause them to go into hiding. Love and passion are discovered in an upstate South Carolina farmhouse, but will Violet be able to put her aviation career before Jack or is it possible to have both?