克里夫和查克一起从狱中释放回到社会，克里夫已经金盆洗手，此时他只想过上正常人的普通生活，但他无法抵挡查克的诱惑又重新回到犯罪团伙中，当他赚够了让弟弟结婚和买仓库做生意的钱后他这次打算永远从黑帮中隐退，但又一次他为了解救困境中的查克时，让他走上了不归路。

Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be Old Nick , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.