David 'Blair' is staying with a young army officer and his family, who gets blinded after handling a toxic gas cannister. When David investigates, he soon loses his sight as well.

When he is arrested for vagrancy, David 'Brendan' is sent to a work camp in Jensen County where he becomes Prisoner #1124. While in the work camp, David witnesses corruption in the prison system by the prison warden and can't work on exposing him with Jack McGee nearby.