""Jeff Bailey small-town gas pumper has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he`s ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit and absconded with $40000. He traces her to Acapulco...where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling... Back in the present Whit`s new job for Jeff is clearly a trap but Jeff`s precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed...""