Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be Old Nick , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.“父亲为了前途，要让我嫁给吏部侍郎的儿子方宗耀，那家人不是好人，风评很差，而且方宗耀还和大奸臣梁相国的儿子梁连沆瀣一气，我怎么可能嫁给那种人？所以我只能来义阳求姑丈和姑母的帮助。他们和梁相国政见不同，肯定不会坐视我嫁给方家的。”