Police Lt. Michael Landers suspects that a suicide at a local flop house isn't what it appears to be. When he boss doesn't share his suspicions, Landers takes a leave of absence and travels to a desert spa town in order to investigate the death.
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.