Jack Wade, an employee of the California Life and Fire insurance company, enters into a deadly battle with the leader of the Russian mafia, Nicky Vale. Jack is sure that the cruel and treacherous Vale killed his wife, the beautiful Pamela, and burned her body along with the house in order to collect insurance money. Jack was once a fire inspector, he knows a lot about such matters. Now against him are gangsters, corrupt lawyers, people intimidated and bribed by the mafia, and yet he, risking his life at every step, helps Pamela’s sister restore justice.