Jim "Clutch" Doyer was a run-away farm boy who learned to fix cars, especially the fast cars owned by the big-time bootleggers on the north side of Chicago, who also occasionally asked him to "fix" some of their competition. With the death of his sweetheart and the end of Prohibition, Jim returned to North Dakota where he became a very successful businessman. Marriage and the birth of a son made him even more respectable. But the sudden death of his young son made him wonder if he was finally being punished for what he had done.