Parole officer Jack Mabry includes left before retirement and wants to finish the cases out. 1 such instance is that of Gerald'Stone' Creeson. Jack feels sympathy to the prisoner's pleads and is initially reluctant to gratify Stone. Seeing expectation in persuasive Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but intentions and goals blur beneath the fires and buried secrets of the corrupt players in this deadly game of deception.