Ulysses Crickle owns a small town grocery store, doubling as the post office, dealing with the peculiarities of the townspeople. Jerry Fleming arrives to run a rival business and to romance Crickle's granddaughter Marian.

An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the m.77mi.cc workers and the mine owners.

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.