When a man in search of employment, becomes involved with a group of students, who are being led astray by destructive influences, he invests all his energy and effort into ensuring that the students are able to stave off the negative powers. Why is he so passionate about helping the students?

A revolutionary is sentenced to death for his anti-national activities. And so begins a battle of wits between the prison officer and his comrades, who try to rescues him with the help of the reluctant hangman who has been selected to deliver the punishment.