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Acting as a decoy in a bank robbery Dot get arrested. But before going to jail she manages to steal the $40, 000 loot from her accomplices. Her arrest attracts the attention of her former sweetheart Ken who believes her innocent.

Dot Burton (Faye Emerson) has acted as a decoy in a bank robbery and fails to get away. Her arrest attracts the attention of Ken Phillips (Frank Wilcox), a former childhood sweetheart who believes her innocent until she confesses. But before going to jail she manages to steal the bank's $40,000 from her accomplices and leaves it with her landlady.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

An actress gets mixed up with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before she's sent to prison, she steals the money from her cohorts and hides it, intending to use it as a bargaining chip to win her release from prison. However, her former partners have other ideas.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Dot Burton, an aspiring actress, helps a gang of bank robbers to hold up a bank. The men escape but the police are suspicious of Dot's actions and arrest her. District Attorney Lewis Sinton asks Dot to turn state's evidence, but she continues to plead her innocence. Radio broadcaster Kenneth Phillips sees a newspaper article about Dot's case and broadcasts a statement lambasting the district attorney for arresting her while the real criminals go free. Sinton responds by suggesting that Phillips help in the investigation. He willingly agrees and begins by questioning Dot. Face to face, Phillips and Dot realize they know each other from childhood and Phillips arranges to have Dot released into his custody. Although Dot intends to go straight, when she overhears the other members of the gang plan to divide up her share of the stolen money, she hides the money from them. Dot intends to atone for her part in the crime by returning the money. Later, encouraged by Phillips to forget about the past, she starts to tell him of her involvement, but when he refuses to take her side, she confesses to Sinton and is sent to prison. There Dot is befriended by Myrtle Reed, but two other convicts, Lucy Fenton and Deaf Annie, ally against her. Soon Carey Wells, one of the bank robbers, dresses as a woman and visits Dot in prison. Deaf Annie reads his lips and tells Fenton that Dot knows where the stolen money is hidden. In the meantime, Myrtle has convinced Dot to let the guilt-ridden Phillips help her get paroled from prison. Fenton bides her time and when Dot comes up for parole, she suggests to the warden, Mrs. Stoner, that she offer to grant Dot parole in exchange for the money. Stoner makes the same suggestion to Phillips, who refuses. Fenton then convinces Dot that the suggestion was Phillips' idea, and Dot plots her revenge against him. She agrees to turn over the money if Phillips will pick it up alone and then gets word to the gang about the arrangement. Then, by accident, Dot learns that Phillips is innocent. She tries to stop him, and when Stoner refuses to allow her to phone him, she escapes in order to warn him of his danger. By the time Dot arrives, the gang has attacked Phillips, but she is able to lead him away. The gang holds Dot hostage, but eventually they are captured by the police. Phillips plans to marry Dot after she is paroled.