 Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father doesn t like that relation first, but Kean s boss McLean convinces him of Kean s good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this Nolan looses his stipes and Kean isn t allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of his former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees his chance....