When Sally McTurk`s husband is murdered, her brother Ken Thornton goes into hiding and winds up in a small mountain community, using a phony name. He`s taken in by a local family, the Harpers. A mutual attraction soon develops between Thornton and the family`s daughter, Dorothy, but a local bully who has designs of his own on Dorothy sets out to have Ken killed. He survives the attempt, but his past comes back to haunt him.