Janet Tarr works as a prison psychologist for potential parolees, and she finds herself drawn to the intelligence and raw beauty of Robert Moss, an inmate convicted of a bank robbery. Eventually able to help facilitate his parole, she and Moss begin a heated affair. But he struggles to adjust to life “on the outside,” and is soon up to his old tricks, committing robbery – but this time he’s added murder to his repertoire. Will Janet turn in her dangerous lover before she becomes his next victim?