Fred Collins, the owner of a small bar, turns out to be an eyewitness to a crime: he sees the jeweler across the street being murdered. Did the stranger in the raincoat who was with him in the store shortly before the crime have something to do with it? In any case, after the fact, Fred saw a man in a similar coat. But when the police introduced him to some men in raincoats, the bar owner began to have doubts. He gets into a major conflict of conscience while another man named Charlie Gordan is suddenly swimming in money ...