Don Williams

In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the opportunity arises to bump him off without getting her hands dirty, she takes a chance she may never get again. After his murder at the hands of criminal Richard Hayden, she begins to receive inopportune visits by Melvin's old business partners about a large shipment of moonshine in her possession. Contacting the FBI for help, agent Ron Sheridan is assigned to her case and develops an unrequited love for Katie. But when a full-scale war develops, she learns the FBI may not be much help to her as she thought, and Katie must take matters into her own hands to pay off her husband's debts for good.

슬러터의 부모님은 자동차에 폭탄이 장치되어 있는 것을 모르고 시동을 걸다가 돌아가셨다. 그는 사건에 대해 의문의 인물이며 아버지와 친분이 있는 제니를 찾아가 추궁하기로 한다. 그러나 슬러터가 그녀에게 무엇인가를 물어보기도 전에 제니는 누가 쏜 지도 모르는 총알 세례를 받는다. 한편 슬러터는 우연히 그의 눈 앞에 나타난 매력적인 여인, 안 쿠퍼와 깊은 관계가 되는데...