In 1938, Edgar Madison is suffering a financial crisis. He hires the McEachin brothers to stage a fake robbery of the mill's shaky captive bank. After the robbery, he has the McEachins killed. Buddy Tate, four-year-old son of Tommy, is a secret, uncomprehending witness as Madison's Security Patrol slaughter and bury the McEachins. By 1971, Buddy is a thirty-seven-year-old derelict. While sleeping under a bridge in Texas, he...