An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.

Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she’s the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.