A group of friends stumble across a jewellery box with a curse. Fighting for their life in the wilderness, they are picked off one by one by a malevolent force.

Billy Clifford, who has served a sentence in reform school for devoted friend Talbot, later in life becomes a successful gambler. He meets and falls in love with Helen Morely, daughter of the mayor. His partner, advised that the mayor intends to raid his establishment, kidnaps Helen and holds her prisoner as security against the raid.