Kate and Jim get jobs at a bar called "The Pony Espresso". Jim works as a barman while Kate serves as an electrician. They meet a duo, husband and wife, of country singers.
Jim and Kate are given lodgings in a home for the elderly. They discover that the old people who live there are being cheated off their pensions by a gang of well-dressed crooks.
Jim and Katy arrive to a small town and play as singles in order to ward off suspicions. Some townspeople are suddenly falling sick because of the water poisoned by the toxic waste dumped from the chemical plant where Katy is working.
Falsely convicted of murder, the fugitive Kate Wyler kidnaps Estelle Modrian the auto mogul who framed her, and tries to extract information in an abandoned warehouse.
Jim's sister is convalescing in a hospital after suffering a stroke. The will to see her puts Jim’s life in jeopardy. Kate is told that she's pregnant and decides to run away.
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.