- someone or something is stampeding widower rancher Joe Mack's cattle killing precious heifers and calves and threatening his livelihood. The local sheriff won't help. He relishes punishing Joe for "ruining" his life, so Joe is forced to take matters into his own hands. When his friends are beaten up and shot, his new gal nearly killed, Joe finds himself in the middle of a war with mercenaries with the deadly possibility of losing everyone and everything he holds dear hanging over his head.