Alec girl, boards at the home of Alec Simmons and charms jeff Warren, a Korean War vet simply arriving to some railroad engineer's project. He becomes attracted instantly the eldest spouse of brutish railroad supervisor, to Vicki Buckley Carl Buckley, penchant for explosive violence and an alcoholic wife beater with a hairtrigger temper. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair with the seductive Vicki that is compulsively. He begs her to intercede on his behalf with John Owens after Buckley is fired for insubordination.