When stopping at a town for gas, plus water for his old truck's leaking radiator, he sees T.J., a 14-year-old recently released from doing clean up work for vagrancy.

The pair find work at the 6666 Ranch run by Jim Webster, and MacKintosh impresses everyone when he breaks horses.

He would live in a remote cabin, earn the wage of a ranch hand, plus get cash bounties for all coyotes he shoots.

MacKintosh and T.J. settle in until accusations are made against the older man for his being too friendly to the battered wife of a ranch hand named Luke.

The two have a knock-down fight and the ranch hand grabs hold of a rock and bashes it against Luke's head, killing the man.

The Peeping Tom ranch hand had been wracked with guilt, wrote down what happened, and hung himself from the top of a windmill.

Producer Tim Penland explained that the funding of the film came from twenty investors from Fort Worth, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma, who also played extras.