A down-on-his-luck businessman succumbs to a beautiful co-worker when she suggests they kidnap their boss's son, collect the ransom and escape to the tropics. Things begin to go wrong when the boy recognises the man and, stricken with guilt, he returns the boy to his mother against the murderous wishes of the femme fatale. The police arrest him and he doesn't implicate her, but there is still the matter of his friend's murder, which she committed, and she doesn't plan on taking the blame...