A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.

Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that, 20 years before, was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. Luther’s account of his wild, ghost-ridden night in the house leads Simmons to sue for libel, but with the aid of his friend Kelsey they determines what exactly happened.

A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy’s marching band program, but things don’t go according to plan.