When Dianne Burns moves across the country to marry Mark Burns in prison, she holds no doubts of her fiancé's wrongful conviction until after his release, when she begins to see signs of both his guilt and plans to resume his criminal behavior.

When Michael O'Leary moves in with his brother Marc, he doesn't realize that Marc has already fled the police in one state and committed crimes in another; the police track them down and suspect Michael of being Marc's accomplice.