 Irv Desmond is being hotly pursued by the Highway Patrol for the murder of a pharmacist during a failed holdup. However, his pleasant and smooth-talking personality enables him to stay just ahead of his pursuers by enlisting the unwitting aid of an elderly couple, a brickyard foreman, and the brickyard s secretary Susan Keefe. The gullible Ms. Keefe even accepts Desmond s invitation to lunch at a roadside diner, where she soon finds herself in the middle of a tense confrontation with Dan Mathews and Sergeant Johnson.