A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it is being whisked from one point to another on the campus by a night watchman, who is an ex-convict.

The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.

In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town.