Career criminal Vincent Lubeck is granted parole through the tireless efforts of his loyal mother, but he is contemptuous of his honest brother Joey and the job he gets at his gas station. He seduces Joey's fiancee Rosa and is indifferent when she commits suicide because Vincent has made her pregnant. After he uses his relationship with Eileen, a beautiful bank employee, to execute an armored car robbery with many of his ex-cronies, his long-suffering brother realizes it is time for him to take action.