 Mary Ann Lowe is a teenage girl en route to a summer job as a camp counselor when she is kidnapped by a trio of kidnappers. They hold her in an isolated cabin in the mountains while contacting her parents for ransom money. She is the daughter of a wealthy Washington DC business man who also happens to be a good friend of Arthur Ward. While tracing Mary Ann s schedule suspicion falls on the hair salon and the woman who does her hair.