Mae slings hamburgers in a diner on a cheap carnival midway. She's fed up with the noise and dirt and, most of all, the poverty. Although married to rollercoaster operator Chick, Mae is having an affair with another carny, Mike. Together they cook up a scheme to kill Chick in what will look like an accident, and then to collect his insurance money and make a new life for themselves. But fate intervenes.
—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>