"...a stunner both for its technical assuredness and as a chilling saga of an off-kilter character who sets himself up as an urban vigilante." -- Variety
As each relentless day turns towards night, Ernest Rackman turns towards violence to escape thoughts of loneliness and suicide. But one evening, while posing as a police officer, he rescues a young girl from her parents' apartment where she was being forced to live a compromising life. Realizing that he can do good in the world after all, he plans and wonders if he might not be able to make a new start with the girl he has just helped while his demons of despair still haunt him.