During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.
