When an aging rancher's health starts to fail, his disgraced son returns to claim a birthright his loyal hand has spent a lifetime working for. With outside money circling the ranch, the two are pulled into a brutal contest for an empire the patriarch has no intention of letting go.

In a small heartland county, an aging sheriff who keeps the peace by knowing which rocks not to turn over is forced to work a murder alongside a city-exiled deputy who can't leave any rock unturned. The case cracks open a corruption the whole county is built on.