Jesse Damon spent most of the last twenty years in prison on a murder conviction. Now paroled, he's trying to beat the odds and walk the straight-and-narrow with a pair of overactive cops watching him for mistakes. He's got a one-room apartment and a job working the overnight shift at a factory. If he can just stay out of trouble, he may even be able to join the union.

The cops have decided Jesse wasn't the one who raped sometimes-girlfriend Kelly. But can he convince Kelly and her father's biker buddies that he had nothing to do with it? And since he's already on parole on a murder conviction, he's the first obvious suspect when the real rapist turns up dead...