An escaped wrongly-convicted finds a new life under a new identity as a corporate executive, happily engaged to the president's daughter. A charred body found by police and mistakenly identified as him leads him to believe he is in the clear, until a stranger shows who knows his prison number. Silence comes at a cost and he and his fiance plot out how to eliminate the extortionist. Of course things don't turn out as expected and our protagonist finds himself right back where he started.