An automotive engineer who has been framed for murder is rescued from police custody by her husband; they flee to New Orleans, beginning a cross-country odyssey to avoid the law and the real killers.
Jim is captured by local police after a high-speed car chase; Kate turns to an enterprising 12-year-old boy for help in eluding the authorities.
The officer relates Jim to the runaway Kate and decides to arrest her too, but she manages to escape.