After a prison break, convict Jubilee, with two companions, takes over a small roadside cafe. The owners are temporarily absent; however, a special party of their friends is expected to lunch. After serving the visitors lunch, the gang tells them they are prisoners. The mutual reactions of 'respectables' and 'villains', the mounting tension of the situation, and instinctive groping towards some sort of understanding, form the basis of the events that follow."