A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.

When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on, hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster Joe Walpo and Ripley finds his hideout through Joe's girl friend, Connie Anderson. Joe is killed but it is established he was 400 miles away when Stewart was murdered. The next involves a car-theft gang which Ripley breaks up by using one of the gang, Vince Angelino and his wife Julie. The last case involves Kate Martell, the victim of an extortionist who threatens to kidnap her child unless she pays him $10,000

杰夫·道森（贾利·古柏）是一个倒霉的石油投机商在南美洲的不幸遭遇团聚他与老朋友，沃德“帕科”康威（安东尼·昆）。不幸的是，杰夫，帕科的妻子是一个坏消息，吃人的玛丽娜（芭芭拉·斯坦威克），几年前和情人跑了，现在杰夫爱上了另外一个女人。