Movie Story : In 1931 Franklin County, Virginia, the Bondurant brothers run a backwoods business that serves as a cover for their real enterprise, bootlegging. Forrest is the clever mastermind, Howard is the muscle, and Jack keeps watch as the youngest. When a sadistic lawman arrives from Chicago determined to shut them down, the local police, who have long taken the brothers' bribes, cannot stop a brutal war from breaking out.