New to the town of Paradise, Stan Wheeler has a passionate affair with another man's wife, Darlene Forzani, but they can't leave together until they find the stolen money that her husband, Earl Forzani, has hidden in his junkyard. Trouble is, the real owner of the money, C.W. Getz, wants it back, too, in this story of lust and greed on the wrong side of the tracks.