With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's.