Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Bluto and others join Popeye in his adventures in the harbor town of Sweethaven.

Maggie Carpenter has developed a well-deserved reputation for being gunshy, having left three men at the altar. Newspaper columnist Ike Graham thinks it will make great copy so he goes to Maggie's hometown to get the dirt on the story. In the process he falls in love with her.

Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.