A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.

States (Lew Ayres, a young man raised on a Mississippi River steamboat, discovers that the steamboat captain, Captain Lilly (Harry Beresford), he has always believed to be his father was, in fact, the killer of his father. But his investigation brings some surprising information... and his marriage to "Towhead" (Anita Louise), also a girl of the river.—Les Adams <[email protected]>