Richard a drifter from England has been living in America since he was twelve years old. Now in his early thirties he's settled in New York doing odd jobs for cash, just enough to buy beer and weed. A call out the blue from an old friend with a promise of a cash job in an oilfield in Daggett sound too good to be true. With nothing to lose Richard drives across America and once at the oilfield discovers from the unfriendly manager there's no work! So Richard wanders into the nearest rural town Frigus, looking for other work. The only place open late at night is the local bar and as he wanders inside Garland the owner mistakes Richard to be the hitman he hired to kill his sister-in-law, Selma. Richard decides to take full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. But things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Mal who's arrived in town.