Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.

A woman trails her estranged husband to the Alaskan pipeline in hope of averting their impending divorce.

Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in the area.