Returning to San Francisco from an overseas trip, Dorothy Bradshaw (Mary LaRoche) and her young daughter (Cheryl Callaway) fall in with drug dealers when the girl inadvertently destroys a bag of heroin the crooks had stashed in her doll. Now cold-blooded killers Dancer (Eli Wallach) and Julian (Robert Keith) must protect mother and daughter until they can explain the missing smack to their volatile boss. Don Siegel directs this noir thriller.