Orphan Edward Blake Garner and Jim Ward are two very good friends who have lived together since then, but when they grow up, they choose two different paths in life. Blake was so addicted to gambling that he became a hard-hearted fraudster. Wade loved to read and became a district court prosecutor. He wanted to be a government official very much. When Blake's girlfriend left him, she married the honest and diligent Wade. However, Blake did not hold a grudge. In fact, the relationship between them was so deep that Blake killed a lawyer who threatened Wade to become a government official because of competition. The upright Ward's last job as a prosecutor was to arraign the murderer who was his best friend and send him to the electric chair. When he became a government official, Wade had the right to commute Blake's sentence. Such a decision will obviously involve Wade in the struggle between ethics and life and friendship.