Jeff Warren, a vet just returning into his railroad engineer's project, boards at your house of Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec girl. He's attracted immediately into Vicki Buckley, brutish railroad supervisor's eldest spouse Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hairtrigger temper and penchant for violence that was explosive. Jeff becomes drawn into a sordid affair. After Buckley is terminated for insubordination, he begs her to intervene on his behalf with John Owens.