Larry Cole is a young man with difficulties: he runs a barely functioning beachfront bar on Florida’s Gulf Coast and his older brother is doing prison time for murder. Larry would like to find the money to get a high-powered lawyer who could spring his brother, but he doesn’t know how he’ll get the money.

Enter Joan Taylor, a sweet young thing with a yen for Larry and ideas of her own. Larry falls hard for Joan, but he’s confused by her behavior: stealing a wallet, stabbing a drifter in the throat and badgering Larry to burgle the nearby yacht club.