 Resentful of what he thinks was a bad rap, but determined to go straight and marry his sweetheart Harriet Owens (Claudia Barrett), Steve Nordstrom (James Lydon) is released from the Honor Farm. He gets beaten up by an old enemy, Fowler (Tim Carey), and suffers amnesia. Winding up in a strange town, Steve is befriended by Ramsey (Hugh Sanders), whose wife Claire (Tina Carver) is two-timing him. She and her boyfriend, Bob Bradfield (Ross Elliott), murder her husband and arrange it so that Steve is suspected.