In einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt läßt sich ein aus der Bahn geworfener Heimkehrer aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg vorübergehend von der Ideologie des Ku-Klux-Klans beeindrucken.

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.