A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
