Darlington Blade, a down-on-his-luck con man, steals the fine clothes from a corpes on the outskirts of a remote town. Upon entering the town, he receives an undeserving hero's welcome. Upon realizing that these people believe him to be the person who's clothes he's wearing, Blade decides to keep up the cherade. But the dead wizard's daughter is determined to prove him a fraud, and the murderers are still at large, and now they are after him.