Three people with deranged pasts are brought together when a drifter called Brother Lowdown comes to town. Simon Brith is a homicide detective known for his intense reactions when in the proximity of any female other than a hooker. Terra Donlevy is a cosmetics heiress, who eschews anything feminine and harbors a violent abhorrence of most men, particularly those who come to her property to poach animals and fish. Simon and Terra meet under unusual circumstances that keep bringing them unhappily together, until a fateful meeting with the indigent Brother Lowdown exposes his desperate need for justice and he targets both Simon and Terra.