The story is about a young man who works as a logger far up into the high Cascade Mountains. Located in the northwestern part of the United States. He deals with the dangers of working as a choker setter and getting along with his coworker on the job. At home he is not ready to settle down to the life as a married man and starts enjoying the night life at a dance hall wasting his money and spending life away from his family. He eventually finds a girl as weak as he is and enjoys the sex and the partnership in his night life. He lives in a heaven on earth to him untill it turns into a hell on...