Frank Bonner is an escaped con on the run from the law.      In Baltimore,   Maryland he boards a bus to avoid being captured.       He ends up in a small town called 'Homerville'  a little town he had never heard of.    During a brief layover he meets and becomes friendly with a little old man at a local coffee shop.    The little old man offers him $500  in cash if he can stay overnight  -  alone  - in  a local house that he  himself  owned on the edge of town.DESPERATE for money Bonner takes the man up on the bet not knowing that it is a feat no one had done before and come out alive!