In a world of rigid discipline and backbreaking toil, life is tough for Lew Ames at the prison farm. Fellow convict Mel Savage's objective is the recovery of a quarter million dollars. Ames' release date is near - and if he helps Savage, there's a half share of the cash in it for him... But when a man runs with the fox he can never expect his life to be easy. For sudden death will follow should his mission fail.