With the help of a nun and a deaf mute nicknamed Shoes, Baretta tries to find a serial rapist who initially poses to his female victims as a plainclothes detective.

A gang of escaped juvenile convicts is holed up in an abandoned plant, surrounded by state police and a S.W.A.T. team.

A story told mostly in flashbacks concerns the suicide of a policewoman whose officer husband was killed in a liquor store holdup.