The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar :a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head over heels in love. The convict who has just escaped from jail wants to keep her out of his predicament ,but after a night of desperate love, she refuses to leave him.And the police are tracking him down.