Kevin MacPartlin, relatively inexperienced private detective, gets a new assignment from his boss. They are to work for a lawyer to prove a convicted man, John Jones is innocent by way of appeal and retrial, of double murder. The main evidence against Jones was a dropped glove by a hedge at the Jones residence found by an alleged racist cop. Kevin likes neither Jones nor the cop but as the retrial continues a new way of looking at the evidence turns the retrial topsy-turvy with a startling outcome.