One year after the conviction of Jimmy Lupo, a man accused of robbing a bank, Bella Lupo, the daughter of the convicted man reaches out to Ned Francis, a private investigator to dig up evidence that her father had taken a fall and been wrongly imprisoned for the crime. Although the hard-nosed detective is initially skeptical, he eventually believes that her father was in fact a patsy. And although he slams into one dead end after another, the detective never gives up the search for justice. However, he begins to fall in love with the prisoner’s daughter, and it seems he is captivated by the daughter’s good looks and seductive ways. Is he really convinced of her father’s innocence, or is he too much in love to see the real truth? With strange obsessions and lust for power, a climatic standoff will shock you.