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A young man living in the backwoods of the south comes across a substantial amount of money in a bizarre way. Unknowingly to him, the money belongs to some questionable characters.

An established poet is trapped in an asylum by two crazy doctors in competition over diametrically opposed schools of thought. One believes in a "classic" method where the other promotes a "revolutionary" metaphysical approach to treatment. The poet yearns for freedom: to live and create but his hands are literally tied. Escape is a must. He befriends a compassionate nurse who falls in love with him. As the story evolves reality shifts where people die and then resurrect. Through her emotional strength and courage the nurse attempts to rescue the poet from a fatal future taking us on a poetic journey with a twisted but enlightened ending.

Wealthy Bruce MacAllister is goaded by his fiancée, Helen Sumner, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth. After telling his estate administrator, Eugene Preston, that he is going east for a meeting, Bruce dons a disguise and infiltrates the San Francisco, CA, underworld. Bruce is mistaken for master criminal "The Chicago Kid" and finds himself leading the gang in a robbery of his own fortune in diamonds. When he discovers Eugene's intention to steal the jewels for himself, the loot changes hands many times. Helen summons the police, the criminals are arrested, and Bruce wins her respect.