Benjamin Holland, a former physician, runs a general store in a small town up the coast from Los Angeles. Holland lost his medical license two years earlier when he reported the wrong lab results to a surgeon and then disappeared from the hospital without permission. Now he is being prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license because he administered life-saving treatment to a young boy. His girlfriend, a woman named Andrea, is an old friend of Joe Mannix from their college days, when she was "queen of the freshman ball." She believes that the solution to Holland's current troubles is to clear his name in the incident that led to the revocation of his medical license. Despite Holland's refusal to cooperate, Mannix agrees to look into the matter for Andrea.
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