Mozelle Britton

Cougar et sa bande de pillards traversent le Rio Grande et effectuent un raid meurtrier dans lequel est tué Bob Houston, le frère de Jim. Celui-ci franchit à son tour la frontière en se faisant passer pour un tueur recherché, en espérant pouvoir attirer Cougar au Texas ou l'attendent les Rangers.

Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.