 A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he s sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper s story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted.