Driving by his deep will of helping Anne get recovered, Matt Lee Whitlock, a young courageous and honest cop, who after divorcing his wife, has an affair with Anne, whom he finds out to be a cancer victim, takes some money from the work, but when she does in a fire, he does not find the money, the thing that brings terrible for him.
Franklin is known for being good with actors, but Out Of Time also reveals his flair with machines, which too often dominate the plots of latter-day noirs.