Joe works on a barge run by Les. Ella may have been the boss's wife, but Joe couldn't have cared less. Their torrid affair takes his mind off the beautiful dead girl found floating in the river. Her name was Cathie, and Joe was the last person to see her alive. Only Joe know's whether Cathie's death was a suicide, an accident or murder. And the shocking truth could save the life of an innocent man, or send a guilty one to the gallows.