In view of "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized collection of memoirs of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as composed by doctor Dr. Ben L. Reitman, "Freight car" Bertha Thompson, a lady work coordinator in Arkansas amid the viciousness filled Depression of the mid '30's gets together with riffraff stirring union man "Enormous" Bill Shelly and they collaborate to battle the degenerate railroad foundation and she is in the long run sucked into an existence of wrongdoing with him.